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SPANISH FORK A Utah ICU nurse has arrived home after nearly six months away from her family while she first battled COVID-19, and then recovered from a double lung transplant. It s good to be home, said Jill Holker.
She was greeted Friday by a cheering crowd of about two dozen family, friends and co-workers on the tarmac of the Spanish Fork Airport.
Holker cared for sick COVID-19 patients at the beginning of the pandemic in the ICU at Utah Valley Hospital and then became a patient herself. She said she was at peak physical fitness before becoming ill.
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SALT LAKE CITY – Utah Highway Patrol and 20 other agencies conducted a special distracted driving enforcement effort state-wide this weekend looking for those whose eyes were not on the road. UHP alone pulled over 2,449 drivers, 68 of them were distracted, 13 were driving under the influence, and 69 were engaging in reckless behavior.
At the virtual Zero Fatalities Safety Summit Tuesday, one Utah woman shared why it s never worth texting and driving.
Leslee Henson Rasmussen and her husband David moved to St. George in 2012. We d only been there five months when our lives did change forever, Rasmussen said.
In March of 2013, they were on a walk on Dixie Drive when a distracted driver hit them both, killing David instantly on impact.
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A driver who suffered extensive injuries after being hit by a suspected drunk driver has died.
On Tuesday, the driver who allegedly caused the crash, Joseph Richard Gomez, 31, who had recently moved to Enoch though court records show him being from Miami, Arizona, was charged in Millard County’s 4th District Court with automobile homicide, a second-degree felony. Gomez was also charged with DUI, a third-degree felony; having an open container in his vehicle on the freeway and driving on a suspended license, both class C misdemeanors; and a pair of traffic infractions.
MILLARD COUNTY A driver who suffered extensive injuries after being hit by a suspected drunk driver has died.
On Tuesday, the driver who allegedly caused the crash, Joseph Richard Gomez, 31, who had recently moved to Enoch though court records show him being from Miami, Arizona, was charged in Millard County s 4th District Court with automobile homicide, a second-degree felony. Gomez was also charged with DUI, a third-degree felony; having an open container in his vehicle on the freeway and driving on a suspended license, both class C misdemeanors; and a pair of traffic infractions.
On Saturday, witnesses said Gomez was driving erratically in a Nissan Maxima on I-15 south of Kanosh, Millard County, according to a police affidavit.
The crash happened on I-15 south of Kanosh, Millard County. When I arrived, I found a blue Ford pickup, which had been carrying a camper, rolled onto its top on the right hand shoulder, the responding UHP trooper wrote in a police booking affidavit.
The driver of the pickup truck was believed to be have died before emergency crews could extricate him from his vehicle, the affidavit says, but was revived by the ambulance crew during the transport to the hospital. He was then moved to Utah Valley Hospital but lacks brain activity and is not expected to survive.
Information about the driver was not immediately released. A female passenger in the truck was also injured.