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KSL TV News and Andrew Adams reporting A teenager is blaming her pet gerbil for a car crash in Springville Tuesday.
Officers say the 17-year-old girl was driving her Jeep on Highway 51. She veered off the road and slammed into a car stopped along the shoulder. That car hit another, which pinned a woman between the two vehicles and struck another person.
Both people went to the hospital, police say, with broken legs.
The Jeep driver said her pet gerbil, also in the car, escaped from its cage. She tried to catch the pet and did not realize she had swerved.
E-mail: aadams@ksl.com
