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HUNTINGTON, Utah (AP) — Authorities say two women have been hospitalized after a driver crashed into them while reaching for his dropped cellphone in Huntington.
One of the women, in her 20s, had to be extricated from her vehicle and was left critically injured following the Sunday crash. Her passenger, a woman in her 40s, was also taken to a hospital for unknown injuries.
The Utah Highway Patrol said in a statement that the driver of an Audi had "leaned down" to get his dropped phone when his vehicle drifted into oncoming traffic, sideswiped a 20-foot trailer being hauled by a pickup truck and hit a third vehicle head-on.
The two women had been in the third vehicle.
Troopers say the Audi caught fire after the collision, but no other injuries have been reported.
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