First responders urge caution with winter conditions in Weber County

MOUNTAIN GREEN, Weber County —A plea to drivers to slow down comes after nearly a dozen cars were involved in crashes along Interstate 84 in Morgan County early Thursday morning.

First responders said that people are driving too confidently, and carelessly. Conditions along Weber Canyon can vary and change quickly. In the past week, that’s meant a lot of crashes.

During an unseasonably warm winter, Chief Brian Brendel with the Mountain Green Fire Protection District said far too many people are learning the lessons of canyon driving the hard way.

“People may have been lulled into a false sense of security because it’s not brutally cold,” Brendel said. “The wreck that we ran this morning were all pretty seasoned folks, but they kind of had the rug pulled out from under them.”

Brendel is talking about a crash involving four vehicles in an area where the wet roads suddenly turned to snow.

“So when they reached this really slick area,” Brendel said. “We had one car, one pick up after another, pick up after other vehicles just crash.”

Four people became trapped in three vehicles and two horses were trapped in a trailer. Luckily, no obvious injuries.

The highway was shut down for almost an hour this morning near mile marker 93 and between 6:30 and 8 a.m., Utah Highway Patrol logged eleven crashes.

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