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One trucker was dead and another seriously injured after two semitrailer rigs collided Monday morning on State Road 28 about 20 miles south of Nephi.
Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Todd Royce said an empty semi dump truck that was hauling a dump trailer, owned by Ogden-based Staker Parson was southbound at 8:18 a.m. when it drifted off the right side, overcorrected back onto the road, and then careened into the northbound lane.
That was when a northbound semitrailer, hauling wood chips out of Richfield owned by Badlands Trucking, T-boned the dump truck, Royce said.
The Badlands truck driver, 56-year-old Rodric Brett Ross, of Richfield, died at the scene.
The Staker Parson driver was transported to Central Valley Medical Center in Nephi with non-life threatening injuries, Royce said.
The cause of the crash was under investigation.
— Reporter Michael McFall contributed to this story
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