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TREMONTON, Box Elder County — A 24-year-old BYU-Idaho student has died from injuries he sustained in a crash on I-15 nearly a month ago.
Miguel Banuelos-Carreon, 24, died on Sunday, according to the Utah Highway Patrol. Banuelos was one of five students from BYU-Idaho traveling south on I-15 on March 27 when the tread from the left rear tire separated from the rest of the tire, according to the UHP.
The Nissan Pathfinder subsequently hit a guard rail and rolled several times down an embankment, according to the UHP. Two people who weren't wearing seatbelts, including Banuelos, were ejected. The three others suffered minor injuries.
Banuelos suffered a brain injury, a broken pelvis, broken ribs and broken vertebra and was in a coma at McKay-Dee Hospital Center after the accident, according to his family.
Banuelos, originally from Mexico, had just started at BYU-Idaho in Rexburg this semester. He was headed to a family baptism in Utah County where he had attended high school.
An updated condition on the woman who was also critically injured in the accident, Hillary Lyles, was not immediately available Tuesday.
