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FILLMORE — An 18-year-old woman died Thursday afternoon as a result from injuries sustained in a head-on collision Wednesday.
Dispatchers received calls of a person recklessly driving a Jeep Cherokee on I-15 near Kanosh around 7 a.m. Wednesday, according to Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Todd Royce. Witnesses reported that the driver was going north in the southbound lanes at a high speed near Fillmore.
Troopers and Millard County sheriff's deputies responded to the area to attempt to stop the driver and discovered the wrong-way driver had hit a southbound Honda Civic head-on, UHP said.
UHP identified Jessie Wilkerson of St. George as the driver of the Jeep Cherokee. She was critically injured in the accident and was taken to the Fillmore hospital, but was later flown to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. She died Thursday afternoon from injuries sustained in the accident, Royce said.
The driver of the Civic, Larry J. Martin, 25, of West Jordan, and back seat passenger Kaela Hernandez, 27, of American Fork, were ejected from the vehicle and were killed instantly, UHP said. Hernandez had been sleeping and was not wearing a seat belt, according to UHP.
Joseph C. Martin, 29, of Eagle Mountain, was a front seat passenger in the Civic. He was transported to Fillmore Community Medical Center in critical condition. His condition was unknown Thursday.
Troopers are investigating possible impairment as a factor in the accident, the UHP said.
The accident closed southbound I-15 near Fillmore for several hours while the crash was investigated.
