After one of the first substantial storms of the year dropped snow and ice in Big Cottonwood Canyon last month, Brittany Kidd and a co-worker, done with work for the moment, started down the canyon.
The two vehicles collided, leaving Kidd with a concussion and the car 250 feet down the hillside. The people inside the car got out before it slid away.
Two weeks after the Nov. 17 crash, Kidd returned to the crash site to urge drivers to take precautions when driving this winter, and to obey snow tire and chain requirements. If the other driver was using either type of winter equipment that day, Kidd said, the wreck wouldn’t have happened.