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PROVO — A Utah family is pleading for help in finding their beloved dog Trigger, who disappeared in Spanish Fork Canyon during a rollover crash.
"I've had him my whole life; he's been through everything I've been through; he's been through every passing in the family, every mile marker; he's literally my best friend," said Hannah Wright outside Utah Valley Hospital Monday, where her brother Daryl Wright is recovering in the intensive care unit.
Hannah Wright was moving home to Syracuse from Texas when, on Dec. 13, she and her brother were involved in a rollover crash on U.S. 6.
"This truck was veering into my lane, and I swerved, and I started to fishtail, and I couldn't correct it," Hannah Wright said.
Their vehicle was pulling a second vehicle on a trailer, and when Hannah lost control of the wheel, the car rolled. Daryl Wright was ejected, and Hannah Wright's two dogs ran off.
"I just remember screaming, 'We're going to wreck, we're going to wreck,'" Hannah Wright said. "The next thing was I was hanging upside down, and then I got out of the vehicle, and I see my brother in the middle of the road, and I just kept screaming for my dogs."
Daryl Wright suffered critical injuries, and Hannah Wright suffered less severe injuries and was released from the hospital the same day. As for her dogs, only one has been found.
"We found Nala across the street from the crash site, clear up on top of the mountain," she said.
Wright and her family have spent days searching for 8-year-old Trigger, her blue-nose pitbull, but so far, there has been no sign of him. Wright fears Trigger could still be in the canyon, or someone may have picked him up.
"We actually have heard that somebody did pick him up, but nobody is coming forward," she said. "Now I'm scared that he's still in the canyon, and I can't find him. He's not meant to be out there."
Wright says without Trigger, she and her brother feel lost. She says trying to heal without him is painful.
"I don't think this recovery process is going to start for me or any of my family until Trigger is brought home," she said.
The Wright family is offering a $500 reward for Trigger's safe return. Anyone with information is asked to call Jeff Wright, Hannah Wright's father, at 435-650-9452.
