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TREMONTON — The Utah Highway Patrol on Wednesday identified the woman killed in Tuesday's wrong-way crash on I-15 in Tremonton as Janet S. Hawks.
The crash occurred at 11:44 a.m. Tuesday near the 5200 West exit when a gray Ford Focus driven by Hawks that was traveling the wrong way struck a northbound white Toyota 4Runner head-on, according to the Utah Highway Patrol.
Both vehicles struck the median, and the 4Runner rolled onto its side, troopers said. Hawks, 77 and from Tremonton, died at the scene, and the driver of the 4Runner was taken to the hospital with critical injuries that were not expected to be life-threatening, a Utah Highway Patrol statement said.
All northbound I-15 lanes were closed for a couple of hours after the crash but were open shortly after 2 p.m.
A witness told investigators he "thought he may have seen the Ford Focus make a U-turn to go southbound from the northbound on-ramp immediately before (the) collision," troopers said, but investigators are still trying to determine why the driver was traveling the wrong way.
