Three people are in the hospital Friday with one in critical condition after a crash in Weber County.
The incident happened at 3500 W and 12th Street on State Route 39.
Utah Highway Patrol officials said two of those injured are a set of 16-year-old twins. The driver, a boy, was life flighted to the hospital.
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UHP officials said they are still investigating what led up to the crash. They interviewed drivers and did accident reconstruction.
They said the teens were in a Volkswagen talking a left turn where they struck a pickup truck, which then went into the westbound lane and hit a semi truck. Officials said the semi driver wasn’t hurt, but the pickup truck driver was taken to the hospital in serious condition.
Raun Stewart said he lives near the intersection where the crash happened.
“It was a real bad one," he said. "This is as bad as they get.”
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He said he's lived there for 32 years. It’s not the first crash he’s seen.
“Lots of accidents,” Stewart said. “Lots of accidents. Some pretty bad ones. Worse now than ever.”
Stewart said cars speed down Highway 39, leaving drivers stopped at 3500 W waiting for a chance to turn left.
"This road gets backed up with kids going to Fremont, and then there’s hardly any gaps in the action so they punch it and go it’s really getting crazy,” he said.
Stewart added that he thinks there are ways to make the interaction safer.
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“I think you got to stop traffic, I think you got to do a four way like out at 4700,” he said.
2News asked Stewart if he thought this crash could bring about changes to the intersection.
“I always think the next one will," he said, "but we had a really bad one a few months back and I thought that would be some change.”
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