Utah highway collapse leads to fatal sinkhole accident and injuries

Posted on July 14, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

July 14, 2011 – TABIONA, Utah — A teenage girl is dead and two people injured after a road collapsed, leaving a 40-foot wide gap in an eastern Utah highway. The Utah Highway Patrol says heavy rainfall opened the hole more than 30 feet deep along State Highway 35 late Wednesday. It happened near Tabiona, a town about 80 miles east of Salt Lake City. The highway patrol says 15-year-old Justine Barneck died after the SUV she was riding in crashed as it approached the hole a few minutes after the collapse. Her father, 59-year-old Michael Barneck, was injured in the accident. The driver of a second car that plunged into the gap, 37-year-old Heidi Paulson, also was hurt. The road remained closed Thursday. An investigation is under way. –Huffington Post

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5 Responses to Utah highway collapse leads to fatal sinkhole accident and injuries

idiotbox says:

July 14, 2011 at 11:41 pm

Heavy rain opened a 40 foot hole in asphalt ….wouldn’t the ground have cracked and dropped a bit before just yawning open to swallow cars…. all that we need to learn from this report is even the highway patrol is involved in the coverup of our plight.

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- Laura Gifford says:
  
  July 15, 2011 at 5:35 am
  
  No… this happened in a very remote area on a state highway that goes through mountains and canyons. I live here, I know.
  
  Storms, flash floods and mountain runoff from tons of snow that is still packed high here, are all contributing factors. It also happened in the middle of the night. State highways that run through mountains and canyons have very little, if any at all, lighting. The only thing that lit up this section of the highway were the cars headlights.
  
  If you have driven in pitch black conditions, even with your high beams on, your vision is severely limited.
  
  This was a tragic act of mother nature. No conspiracy here!
  
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  - idiotbox says:
    
    July 15, 2011 at 5:07 pm
    
    So you are not aware of the thousands of sink holes that have appeared in the states and abroad throughout this year (more than in the last century) in most if not all of these sinkholes rain was the culprit (or so says the media) yet when the rain fall maps are reviewed there was little or no rain in the area of the sinkhole this can be proven with some simple research on your part.So that being the case this sinkhole is different than the others (possible but unlikely) and since when are police qualified to determin the cause of such events. In retrospect rain may
    have contributed to the event but it was most likely not the only culprit.
adam says:

July 15, 2011 at 12:55 am

Sinkholes and earthquakes are the most frightening things to me. When you can’t trust the ground you stand on……

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- Ryzyn says:
  
  July 15, 2011 at 4:14 pm
  
  Very symbolic of the way the majority feel towards one another. Trust has been a major issue within our society for too long… and now, quite literally, the illusion is falling apart. The truth is breaking through…
  
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