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Utah Highway Patrol: Woman killed on I-15 after exiting car

Bluffdale • Authorities say a woman was struck and killed on a Utah freeway Saturday after getting out of a car driven by her boyfriend.

The Utah Highway Patrol says the boyfriend was seriously injured when he tried to protect the woman by pulling his car into a traffic lane of northbound Interstate 15 and the car was hit by a passing dump truck.

According to the Highway Patrol, the boyfriend had pulled over near Bluffdale because the woman was attempting to jump out of the vehicle while it was moving.