A window was the loser when it collided with a Helper man in a three-car accident across from Burger King in Price.
Mark Harrington was in “the middle of a sandwich,” he said, of the trio of vehicles, resulting in his head puncturing the back window. The glass was shattered. He said he was OK. The crash occurred late in the afternoon July 25.
Each vehicle was headed west across from the Burger King at 124 N. Carbonville Rd. in Price, Price Police Chief Bill Barnes said.
Harrington stopped a couple of car lengths behind the truck of Cleveland, Utah resident Jody Wandell. Her vehicle was at the stop line at the intersection of Carbonville Rd. and Price River Dr.
But Wandell didn’t drive forward, he said.
“I was sliding, but I did stop,” Harrington added. He said he hit the truck “with a push.”
That came from the vehicle of a woman who asked not to be named. Her vehicle brought up the rear in the collision. She said rain that day brought up the oil that was seeping into the road and that Wandell’s truck didn’t move because a vehicle in the adjacent lane was going to be driven through a red light.
“(She) saw a car and it looked like it was going to blow through the light,” said the woman, who Barnes said was charged with “following too close.”
The woman asked for an explanation of “it is too embarrassing” as to why she did not want to be named, as teenagers are typically involved in such incidents, she said.
The ambulance called left the scene, “but it’s not unusual a day or so later to have aches or pains, even in a minor fender-bender like this, to end up with some significant neck or shoulder issues,” Barnes said.
All of the vehicles were damaged, Barnes said. Just two years ago, Harrington had the front fenders on his 1981 Mazda B2000 replaced, he said. The new ones were damaged by a trailer hitch on the woman’s 1998 Dodge Dakota.
Price City police and fire and the Carbon County sheriff’s office were among those on the scene.
Window loses to man in three-car crash; woman cited
Mark Harrington of Helper recovers in his 1981 Mazda B2000 after his head went through the back window in a three-car crash, shattering the glass. Rhett Wilkinson