Utah Highway Patrol Lt. Cade Brenchley remembers getting out of his patrol car and starting his walk toward the accident, but doesn’t remember much else until he regained consciousness and found himself flat on his back.

“I do remember getting hit, but at the time I didn’t know what it was,” he said Tuesday. “I just remember feeling a jolt and everything going black and I honestly thought I was coming out of a restless sleep. And then I woke up and I was face up, and there was a car tire a foot to my right, and it took me a few seconds to realize where I was and what I was doing.

“And I thought, ‘Oh, I’ve been hit. How did this happen?’”

In 2018, Brenchley had just pulled up to a crash in snowy Sardine Canyon and was walking along the shoulder to the crash scene, when a young woman, who

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