TOOELE COUNTY, Utah — One person died after a car rolled off the freeway and into a pond near Tooele on Saturday evening.
Utah Highway Patrol said the crash happened around 7 p.m. The car was traveling west on I-80 when it took the off-ramp at Exit 99, near the town of Lake Point, at a high speed. The driver lost control, and the car rolled into a retention pond.
The driver, a 35-year-old man, was airlifted to the hospital in critical condition. He was eventually pronounced dead from his injuries.
A dive team responded to the scene to help recover the car from the water.
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