ST. GEORGE — After crossing all lanes of traffic on Bluff Street, a Lexus launched into multiple parked cars on Wednesday afternoon. The crash destroyed several vehicles and injured the older driver of the Lexus.
The crash was reported shortly after 4 p.m. in the parking lot on the north side of the intersection of Bluff Street and St. George Boulevard, where emergency personnel found two cars wedged, a red Lexus and a white Subaru, as well as three other vehicles that were left damaged in the parking lot in front of Ace Hardware and other stores.
St. George Police Public Information Officer Tiffany Mitchell told St. George News the driver of a Lexus sustained minor injuries and was treated by paramedics at the scene.
Mitchell said at the time of the crash, the Lexus was southbound in the inside lane of Bluff Street when the driver swerved to the left and struck the concrete median.
The vehicle continued across all three northbound lanes of travel before jumping the curb, police said. It then struck one of the large boulders that sits in the parking lot near the corner of Bluff Street and St. George Boulevard.
The impact with the boulder launched the Lexus into the parking lot, where it hit at least two other vehicles that were then pushed into other vehicles, Mitchell said. The Lexus hit one of the vehicles, a Subaru, so hard it nearly became impaled into the driver’s side, and both had to be pulled apart once a wrecker arrived on scene.
No other injuries were reported in the crash.
Mitchell said the Lexus driver told officers she had lost consciousness just before striking the median.
Five tow trucks were dispatched to the parking lot to remove each of the vehicles involved in the crash after each was rendered inoperable.
There was little impact on traffic, Mitchell said, since the crash, wreckage and emergency operations were primarily confined to the parking lot.
The St. George Police Department, St. George Fire Department and Gold Cross Ambulance responded to the scene, along with five tow trucks.
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