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SHIVWITS, Washington County — A passer-by discovered an overturned pickup truck with a dead body in a ravine off Old Dixie Highway 91 about five and a half miles southeast of the Shivwits convenience store Friday morning.
Officers said the circumstances are unclear of how or when the vehicle ended up off the road at mile marker 12. A man officers said was the sole passenger of the vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene and had been deceased for an unknown amount of time before he and the vehicle were discovered. The identity of the man is being withheld pending notification of family.
The overturned pickup was found two weeks to the day and within feet of where another vehicle went off the same highway and rolled several times, eventually coming to rest.
Authorities said they received a call at around 11:30 a.m. Friday about the overturned vehicle seen about 20 feet below the highway in a wash to the north of the road.
"Someone was in like a lifted truck, but maybe somebody in the passenger seat was able to see something," Washington County sheriff's deputy Graham Hancock told St. George News at the scene, adding a passenger in that vehicle was a retired law enforcement officer who immediately called authorities.
