This kind of has to do with this seat belt thread...A story to get you people not wearing seatbelts to wear seatbelts (and not pass on the left in no pass zone). Even though the seatsbelts probably wouldn't have done anything...
I wanted to post this story up....This happened during the summer up near monte cristo. No one was wearing seat belts.
This is from the Ogden Standard Examiner:
5 Young People Killed In Head-On Collision
Weber County Sheriff's Capt. Klint Anderson said a Honda and Volkswagen were driving west on the two-lane highway. The two vehicles were passing each other while driving down Ogden Canyon.
"They knew each other," Anderson said. "It was a large group of family and friends, two carloads of young people on their way to come home and shower and then head back" to a camping site.
All those who died were riding in the Honda.
The Honda tried to pass the other vehicle near Monte Cristo in a no-passing area, and was hit head-on by a Ford F-350 pick-up truck, which ended up on top of the car, officials said.
"They were not wearing seatbelts, but the accident was so bad, the seatbelts probably would not have helped," Anderson said.
The truck was driven by Richard Krig, 22, and passengers included his wife, Alexandra Krig, 20, and an infant, all from the Ogden area, said Lt. Matt Bell of the Weber County Sheriff's Office.
Richard Krig suffered a shoulder injury. He and his wife were wearing seatbelts and the infant was in a car seat. None of them was seriously injured, officials said.
Ashley Bishop knew Vanessa Reyes as a classmate at Ben Lomond High School and, until recently, as a neighbor in the Bramblewood Apartments.
Bishop described Reyes as very outgoing and very happy. Bishop heard about the accident from a neighbor and said she had to repeat Reyes' name several times before she could comprehend the tragedy.
The crash occurred in front of the Ogden Eagles Trailer Park, about 100 S. 1000 East in Huntsville.
The trailer park is occupied almost year-round by local members of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Residents said the crash was so loud and violent they could easily hear it from their camp sites.
"Everyone in the whole place heard it," said a man at the park who declined to give his name. "There are a lot of wrecks up here but I've never heard anything like this one. Usually before a wreck you'll hear tires screeching, but with this one, you just heard the most unbelievable crashing sound. It was a damn shame."
Roy resident Nancy Driscoll stays at the park throughout the warmer months. She sees auto accidents near the park two or three times a year, but said she had never seen or heard one like Saturday's wreck.
"I've never heard any like that in my life," she said. "It was horrifying. It just sounded like some kind of big explosion."
Driscoll said she and other park residents ran up to the road after hearing the accident.
"Right after you heard the wreck, you could hear a car full of kids just screaming, I mean screaming," she said. "Those poor kids were just sick. I helped one of the girls come down here and use the bathroom after it happened, but I didn't get her name or anything. It was just so chaotic."
Shortly after the road re-opened about 1 p.m., a memorial, with a makeshift cross and flowers, was set up at the crash site.
The number of fatalities and sheer destruction in Saturday's crash made it one of the worst in recent memory, said Lt. Philip Howell of the Weber County Sheriff's Office.
"It was a pretty horrific accident," he said.
The crash was similar to another accident in the Ogden Canyon on May 27 that claimed the life of 16-year-old Mayra Serrano and injured three others, said Howell. That crash happened when an Acura and Honda were racing westbound through the canyon.
"It was almost identical," said Howell of the two crashes. "One vehicle trying to pass another."
The accidents were also similar in that they involved young drivers and occurred in areas where passing is prohibited.
There are some horrific stories going along with this that aren't told in the article.
Richard Krig suffered a shoulder injury. He and his wife were wearing seatbelts and the infant was in a car seat. None of them was seriously injured, officials said.
Now if not for seat belts these people in the F-350 would have probably been ejected from the truck and/or suffered serious injuries.