A 25-year-old man was critically injured Thursday when part of a road sign flew through his windshield in a chain-reaction crash that started when a woman swerved to miss a deer north of Tooele.
The accident happened about 2:30 p.m. on State Road 36 near the Erda turnoff, said Utah Highway Patrol Cpl. Todd Johnson. A 29-year-old woman was driving a Subaru Impreza south when she swerved to avoid the deer and hit a metal caution sign in the median, said UHP Trooper Chris Lewis.
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The sign was knocked into the northbound lanes, where another car hit it and threw the metal base of the sign into the air. It flew through the windshield of a third vehicle, a Chevrolet Silverado, and struck the driver’s face and chest. The first car, meanwhile, came to rest in the southbound lanes and was hit by a cement truck.
The woman escaped with minor injuries, and an ambulance took her to Mountain West Medical Center. The man was flown to a hospital in Salt Lake City. The other two drivers weren’t hurt.
State Road 36 was closed for an hour and a half.
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