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ROOSEVELT — A Roosevelt police officer sustained minor injuries in a head-on collision with a vehicle driving the wrong way.
Roosevelt police said a car was reported driving in the wrong lane on Sunday afternoon in the Fruitland area, an unincorporated community in Duchesne County. Two officers located the vehicle near Moon Lake Electric on U.S. 40.
Police said the vehicle was traveling west in the outside eastbound lane. An officer attempted to stop the vehicle by positioning his car in the lane the wrong-way driver was in and turning on his lights.
The wrong-way driver veered around the officer and continued driving in the inside eastbound lane, where it collided with Sgt. Tracy Bird's patrol vehicle, police said. Bird sustained minor injuries but was treated and released at a local medical center.
Police did not release a condition or identity of the wrong-way driver. Utah Highway Patrol is investigating to determine what caused the "erratic driving," Roosevelt police said in a statement Monday.
Another police officer was hit in a separate Summit County incident just before 1 a.m. Sunday.
A woman contacted police saying her father, Rusty McKay, 65, was driving while intoxicated in the Coalville area, according to a police booking affidavit. McKay allegedly struck a pickup truck and a tree, but fled the scene and was driving on Rockport Boulevard toward state Route 32, police said.
A Summit County sheriff's sergeant spotted McKay's vehicle and it "nearly struck his vehicle head-on," the affidavit states. Just a few moments later, a Utah Highway Patrol trooper reported McKay rammed his car into the trooper vehicle before fleeing and crashing nearby, the affidavit continues.
McKay was removed from his vehicle and taken into custody by Summit County deputies.
