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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Utah Highway Patrol says hundreds of vehicles spun out of control or crashed as up to a foot of snow fell across the state.
Salt Lake County alone recorded 221 crashes between midnight Friday and Sunday afternoon.
Highway Patrol Sgt. Jeff Nigbur says 31 of those accidents involved injuries.
Utah County logged 69 crashes, eight involving injuries.
Those figures don't include numerous vehicle slide-offs. No fatalities or life-threatening injuries were reported.
In St. George, a tractor-trailer jackknifed, closing northbound lanes of Interstate 15 for about three hours Saturday.
In south Ogden, officials were investigating why a fully loaded and parked semitrailer collapsed a section of Adams Avenue and fell into a 30-foot hole.
More cold weather and snow is in the week's forecast.
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