One dead after crash in Heber City on Monday

HEBER CITY, Utah (ABC4) — Heber City Police responded to a car accident on Monday afternoon and transported one of the drivers to the hospital, where he later passed away.

According to the Heber City Police Department, their officers and personnel from the Wasatch Fire District responded to a traffic accident with injuries at 400 South and 500 East on Monday, August 11th. One of the involved drivers later died at the hospital.

At around 2:35 p.m. on Monday, one vehicle was traveling eastbound on 400 South and “failed to stop for the posted stop sign”. A second vehicle was traveling southbound on 500 East and hit the first vehicle.

The driver of the first vehicle, who has been identified only as a 60-year-old male, was transported to Heber Valley Hospital with serious injuries. Unfortunately, he died at the hospital as a result of his injuries. The investigation is still ongoing at the time of this article.

Heber City Police Department reported that Utah Highway Patrol used Total Station mapping to help with documenting the crash scene

Total Station Mapping

According to the Utah Highway Patrol, Total Station Mapping is a form of professional surveying of an area. Total Station equipment “captures and plots points of interest in reference to itself” and can be “used to create scaled diagrams of the roadway and the crash.”

In fatal or serious injury crashes, Total Station Mapping can help provide a map of the crime scene that helps UHP’s reconstruction team determine what happened.

Additionally, Total Station Mapping can “provide answers to the families that have lost a loved one.”