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By Nur Kausar The Spectrum | |
ST. GEORGE – Utah Highway Patrol reported Monday that the driver of a Chevrolet Suburban that rear-ended a tractor-trailer Sunday on Interstate 15 mile marker 7 is 50-year-old Wallace Jeffs. The law office of Roger Hoole in Salt Lake County, which represents Jeffs, confirmed he is a brother of polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. UHP reported Wallace Jeffs, of Mesquite, is in serious condition and was airlifted to University Medical Center in Las Vegas as a result of his injuries Sunday night. Wallace Jeffs had been driving south on I-15 when he rear-ended the truck that was slowing down for a traffic jam ahead. The Suburban ignited in the crash and firefighters had to remove the driver from the flames. Driver of the tractor-trailer Millard Meanea II, 67, of Central Valley, did not sustain injuries, according to the UHP report. The slow traffic resulted from a prior bee hauler crash on I-15 mile marker 5, where more than 25 million bees escaped from a tractor-trailer headed to California. | |
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TheSpectrum.com Originally published October 24, 2011 | |
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