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GRAND COUNTY — One person has died and another was injured following a head-on collision near Moab Tuesday night.
The accident occurred along state Route 191 about 10 miles south of Moab around 8:30 p.m., according to Utah Highway Patrol. A 2006 Dodge Durango was traveling southbound behind a semitruck and began passing the slower-moving vehicle in a double lane passing zone. While passing the semitruck, the driver drifted over too far and crossed into the northbound lane where it was hit head-on by an oncoming semitruck, UHP said.
The driver of the Durango was killed on impact and the passenger of the vehicle was airlifted to a Grand Junction hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The occupants of the semitruck received minor injuries during the collision.
The name of the victim has not yet been released, pending family notification.
More information will be posted as it becomes available.
