Practice News Story: Accident

Practice News Story: Accident

During the afternoon of January 16, at 4pm a van carrying ten students and one instructor encountered a blowout of a tire. The blowout was the beginning main cause of the accident. The blowout resulted in all passengers being thrown from the van. The Highway Patrol was the first on the scene after it had been reported to dispatch. There was one other vehicle accompanying the van on a field trip to Greenline. Both men, the fellow vehicle ddriver and the Highway Patrol, did what they could to check who had survived. Shortly after the ambulance arrived, seven passengers died on the scene. Three of the victims were life-flighted and one taken in an ambulance to the Tremonton Hospital. All the victims have been identified and the Highway Patrol Police have contacted the families. This surely was a tragic event in the history of Utah State University.