Driver killed in semi rollover

Written by Mori Kessler
November 11, 2013

IRON COUNTY – A Glendale woman was killed Monday afternoon after a semi rolled off state Route 20.

Around 4:25 p.m., Monday, a semi pulling two coal trailers and traveling westbound on SR-20 was having brake trouble according to what witnesses told the Utah Highway Patrol.

Driven by Kaynita Spencer, 47, of Glendale, Utah, witnesses said the brakes were smoking for several miles. When the driver attempted to make a left from SR-20 to a frontage road west of I-15, the semi overturned and rolled off the west side and into a pit. Spencer sustained fatal injuries and died at the scene.

Ed note: Information regarding the driver has been corrected.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mori Kessler serves as a Senior Reporter for St. George News, having previously contributed as a writer and Interim Editor in 2011-12, and an assistant editor from 2012 to mid-2014. He began writing news as a freelancer in 2009 for Today in Dixie, and joined the writing staff of St. George News in mid-2010. He enjoys photography and won an award for photojournalism from the Society of Professional Journalists for a 2018 photo of a bee inspector removing ferals bees from a Washington City home. He is also a shameless nerd and has a bad sense of direction.

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