In the past 18 years they've invested over $148 million dollars to improve the safety of the road. The Utah Department of Transportation has heard concerns about US-6 for years. "A lot of times the more serious crashes have been caused by people who have crossed over and gone head-on with other vehicles." Cameron Roden with the Utah Highway Patrol. "It's a mountain roadway that is a windy roadway, two-way traffic, no positive median barrier there," said Sgt. Palmer and Pogue say the risky characteristics of the road combined with impatient drivers has caused too many injuries and deaths. "Two of our friends from right here in the neighborhood were up here last Saturday returning from a service project when the other driver crossed over and hit them head on, they're both very badly hurt," Pogue said. "In 2018 me and my sister-in-law pulled up on a two-car crash that will forever stick in my head, trying to get this man out of his car that is already deceased," Palmer recalled. People like Palmer and Steven Pogue have been impacted directly and indirectly by crashes in US-6. "When I got home, I was like I'm going to post this on the internet because I want people to see how dangerous Highway 6 is." "It was like five or six vehicles before I even started recording and I kept telling my husband they're going to kill somebody somebody is going to crash," Palmer said. Now video taken by Karrie Palmer on US-6 shows not one, not two, but four cars passing double yellow lines to pass a semi truck. Highway 6 between Spanish Fork and Green River has historically been considered by many a dangerous road.
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