SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Highway Patrol pursued and stopped a driver who was seen traveling the wrong direction on Interstate 15 in Beaver County Tuesday.

A black Lexus was seen on UDOT cameras traveling north on the shoulder of the southbound lanes just after 11 a.m. Then just before noon, the driver was spotted traveling the other direction — heading south in the northbound lanes at mile marker 103, south of Beaver.

Just after 12 p.m., Utah Highway Patrol Lt. Cam Roden said authorities stopped the vehicle. Roden said the driver was initially pulled over for a traffic stop, then they fled the wrong direction.

Roden said the inital traffic stop happened on Interstate 15 North near mile marker 112, north of Beaver.

“ The vehicle fled northbound and the troopers pursuit till it exited at m

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