Local couple dies weeks apart from same crash

An Idaho Falls woman was taken off life support in a Utah hospital July 11, nearly two weeks after suffering critical injuries in the same one-vehicle crash that killed her husband.

Barbara Turner, 72, died at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, according to the Idaho State Police. Bruce Turner, 72, died at Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello the day of the crash on June 29.

The state police reported that the crash occurred when the Turners were traveling eastbound on Interstate 86, east of American Falls, in a 2001 Ford Explorer…

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