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SPANISH FORK — The man hauling gasoline in a tanker that crashed and exploded while exiting I-15 on the U.S. 6 off-ramp was identified Saturday night.
Leslie Shelton, 28, of Fruita, Colorado, was reportedly pulled from the burning tanker and flown by medical helicopter to the Intermountain Burn Center. He was in stable condition Saturday, according to the Utah Highway Patrol.
Shelton was transporting approximately 8,500 gallons of gasoline and was trying to go from southbound I-15 to eastbound U.S. 6 when he went off the left side of the ramp for an unknown reason, down the embankment, crashed and exploded, UHP said.
UHP is still investigating the cause of the crash.
"Where the truck went off, it was kind of in a little straightaway between a couple of turns," UHP Sgt. Brett Christensen said. "So we don't know if speed was a factor or what else may have been involved."
