Claim: Photographs show a truck that crashed through a highway barrier and jumped (or rolled) over a culvert on the edge of a cliff.
Status: True.
Origins: The above-displayed photographs supposedly depict a truck that crashed though a highway barrier, rolled over a culvert, and came to rest facing opposite its original direction of travel — barely missing plunging hundreds of feet over an adjacent cliff.
We have verified that the roadway seen in these pictures is Highway 59 (i.e., State Route 59) near Hurricane City, Utah:
The Hurricane City Police department also confirmed that these images "are consistent with a single vehicle traffic accident that occurred on State Route 59 in Hurricane City" on 30 December 2006, and that "Hurricane City Police and Hurricane City Fire Rescue responded to the scene." They declined to provide any additional detail about the accident, citing the confidentiality provisions of Utah's Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA).
