SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah Department of Transportation is investigating why a wrong-way detection system didn’t appear to work Saturday morning before a crash that killed a young couple.

UDOT spokesman John Gleason told KSL the department’s traffic operations center did not receive an alert when a vehicle entered I-15 the wrong way at 600 South around 2 a.m. and began traveling southbound in the northbound lanes.

Utah Highway Patrol troopers said that vehicle, driven by Jose Angel Torres Jimenez, 21, hit another car near 1900 South. Both occupants of that second car – Anneka Wilson, 17, and Leo Shepherd, 18 – were killed. Jimenez was booked into jail on suspicion of automobile homicide and driving under the influence.

A family photo shows Leo Shepherd and Anneka Wilson. (Courtesy Wils

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