SALT LAKE CITY ( ABC4 ) — The Salt Lake City Police Department is investigating a wrong-way crash in the Poplar Grove neighborhood of Salt Lake City that killed one person and left two others in the hospital on Friday night, according to a press release.
Police say the driver who died in the crash was identified as Wilber Cardenas, 19.
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SLCPD said its investigation began shortly before 10 p.m. on Friday after a call came in about a crash. According to police, the preliminary investigation revealed Cardenas was driving north in the southbound lanes on South 5600 West, where he may have swerved before the crash, causing his car to hit the other vehicle involved in the crash.
When officers got to the scene, they found two cars — a red Kia and a silver Infiniti — with “extensive damage,” with Cardenas’s car upside-down and the other car with damage on the front end.
The Salt Lak e City Fire Department was able to rescue the driver of the Kia and that driver was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.