More and more garbage keeps piling up on Utah roads. It’s trashy and treacherous.
Debris from mattresses to sheet metal and Christmas trees are flying off vehicles. A loose shovel smashed into a windshield, spraying glass on a driver and totaling a minivan. UDOT, UHP urge motorists to secure loads.
(Leia Larsen | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Department of Transportation spokesperson John Gleason stands Wednesday, June 30, 2021, near a large pile of trash crews collected off roads in Salt Lake County over the past month. The amount of time UDOT spends cleaning up litter and debris from the roads is up by 28% in the past five years.