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Utah plans runaway ramp in area of recent truck crashes

Garden City • Utah transportation officials plan to install a new type of runaway truck ramp above a highway junction after a third crash at the same location.

Utah Department of Transportation officials said the site at Garden City near northern Utah's border with both Idaho and Wyoming would use a cable-arrest system already in use in Wyoming.

Department spokesman John Gleason said the location on U.S. 89 doesn't lend itself to a traditional runaway design because of the lack of an incline along the downhill stretch near the junction with State Route 30.