A New Mexico man is dead after crashing a semi-truck near Moab on Wednesday night.
The 27-year-old man, identified as Simon Ashe, was driving south on U.S. Highway 191, just north of Arches National Park, when the truck drifted onto the right shoulder of a curve near mile marker 132 just before 7:30 p.m., a Utah Highway Patrol news release said.
The driver was unable to negotiate the curve, the release said, and struck the rock wall of a mountain side.
Ashe was ejected through the front windshield, the release said. A trooper who arrived at the scene located his body and pronounced him dead.
A witness told troopers the truck was traveling at a "higher rate of speed" down the canyon.
Police found no signs that alcohol or drugs were a factor in the preliminary investigation. The truck was carrying onions to New Mexico.
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| courtesy of Utah Highway Patrol A man died Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, when he was ejected from his semi-truck, which crashed into the rock wall of the mountain on U.S. Highway 191 in Moab Canyon.
| courtesy of Utah Highway Patrol A man died Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, when he was ejected from his semi-truck, which crashed into the rock wall of the mountain on U.S. Highway 191 in Moab Canyon.
| courtesy of Utah Highway Patrol A man died Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, when he was ejected from his semi-truck, which crashed into the rock wall of the mountain on U.S. Highway 191 in Moab Canyon.
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