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The Utah Highway Patrol has released numbers involving traffic stops performed by troopers over the Fourth of July Weekend. According to UHP, 63 people were arrested for driving under the influence. The only death occurred during the holiday weekend on July 5th in Roy...

A driver was airlifted to a hospital after hitting a trooper's vehicle in Salt Lake County. Utah Highway Patrol officials said it happened around seven-thirty Sunday evening. The trooper was investigating a crash on I-80 near the Lamb's Canyon exit when the driver of a truck carrying a trailer rolled and crashed onto the top of his official vehicle. ...

The Utah Highway Patrol says a man is recovering after a crash into the Logan River caused him to stop breathing. The UHP said the crash happened around 6:30 p.m. yesterday on U.S. 89 near milepost 473. The car rolled after the crash and wound up on its wheels in the river...

The Memorial Day holiday for this year has come and gone. How did we do as motorists on Utah’s highways. According to the UHP there were 5550 enforcement stops, 3286 speeding violations, seatbelt tickets 599, DUI arrests 77, 160 crashes and sadly 1 fatality. T...

The Utah Highway Patrol and Utah Department of Transportation are once again asking drivers statewide to be extra careful between Memorial Day and Labor Day. UDOT spokesman John Gleason says summer should be a safe driving season but often turns out just the opposite...

The Utah Highway Patrol is joining in a multi-state effort to get people to fasten their seat belts and keep them fastened. The agency announced yesterday that it was teaming up with surrounding states to enforce “click it or ticket border to border seat belt laws across state lanes. T...

The Utah Department of Transportation and the Utah Highway Patrol want to lower the death toll from motorcycle crashes statewide. UDOT's John Gleason said yesterday that Utah is on pace to beat last year's total of 47 motorcycle deaths. UDOT and the UHP say drivers need to pay attention to what's happening around them, giving motorcycle riders room to operate safely...