Propane Tanker Crash Closes Laketown Canyon Road

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Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter

Rich Civic Times

                   

Photo by Bryce Nielson

LAKETOWN, Utah.  July 14, 2013.  Saturday afternoon , July 13, a tanker truck full of propane ran off the road and the driver lost control.  He was injured and transported to the hospital in Evanston, Wyoming.  The truck continued to leak propane as the tanker filled with over 10,000 gallons of propane had been damaged.

 

The road was closed until one o'clock Sunday afternoon, according to Dan Kurek, Garden City Fire Chief.

 

The highway was closed from the mouth of Laketown Canyon to the junction of Utah Roads 30 and 16.