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PRICE — A man involved in a rollover crash that resulted in the death of his passenger when he was traveling an estimated 60 mph over the speed limit prior to the accident has been charged, according to investigators.
Skyler Clay McCade Harper, 21, of Spring Glen, Carbon County, was charged Friday in 7th District Court with manslaughter, a second-degree felony.
On Sept. 27, 2020, McCade was on Airport Road near the Desert Thunder Raceway when he failed to negotiate a curve in the road and crashed into a power pole. A 19-year-old man was ejected from the passenger seat and killed, according to charging documents. Court documents do not list the man's name.
According to a press release from the Carbon County Sheriff's Office at that time in 2020, deputies arrived just before 11 p.m. and found the vehicle 50 feet off the road.
"It was apparent the vehicle rolled to the destination and ejected one of the occupants," the sheriff's office stated. "The driver of the vehicle stated that the accident was a result of an overcorrection from trying to miss a deer on the road."
Investigators determined the vehicle had been going between 107 and 116 mph on the 55-mph road just prior to the crash, charging documents state.
