NEED TO KNOW

An 18-year-old was impaled by a piece of rebar after it hit a car windshield near the Utah-Wyoming border on Sept. 8

The highway was closed for two hours while emergency responders were at the scene

Investigators are still searching for information about the origin of the concrete form stake

An 18-year-old woman is in serious condition after she was impaled in the chest by rebar that flew through a windshield while she was riding in a car on a Utah highway, authorities said.

On Monday, Sept. 8, at 2:40 p.m. local time, a Toyota Corolla was traveling north on Route 189 near milepost 18 by the Wyoming border when a “concrete form stake” came up over a barrier and went through the windshield, the Utah Department of Public Safety said in a release.

The piece of rebar “impa

See Full Page