The mayor of Green River, Utah, was killed late Friday when his car was hit head-on by a semitruck, authorities said.

Mayor Ren Hatt, who had just been reelected to a second term in November, was 40.

The accident occurred around 9:40 p.m. Friday as a 2021 Freightliner semi headed west on Highway 6 about eight miles west of Green River with Hatt’s 2020 Hyundai Palisade traveling east, the Utah Department of Public Safety said Saturday in a statement.

“For an unknown reason, the Freightliner drifted into the eastbound lanes and struck the front passenger side (head-on) of the Hyundai,” the Utah Department of Public Safety said.

The semi immediately veered back, to the far right side of the highway, police said. The Hyundai was pushed and ended up on the righthand side of the eastboun

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