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One dead, two injured in rollover on 1-15 Sunday night

One person died and two more are in critical condition after Interstate-15 south of Cedar City was closed for two hours Sunday night as emergency personnel responed to a fatal rollover.

Just after 9 p.m., a pickup truck pulling two trailers in tandem left the northbound 1-15 lanes and overturned. The first trailer was a travel trailer, and the second was made from an old truck bed and was loaded with two 4-wheeled off-road vehicles.

All three occupants were pinned and had to be extricated from the vehicle. One passenger, 50-year-old Sara Oliver was pronounced dead on the scene. The driver, 53-year-old Mark Oliver was air lifted to a Las Vegas hospital in critical condition. 12-year-old Emma Oliver was transported by ground to a local hospital.

Chris Holmes holds a Masters of Professional Communication degree from Southern Utah University. While at SUU his work received numerous awards including the 2009 King Foundation Best of Festival Award in the National Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts. Chris is co-host of the daily public affairs program, Big Picture Morning Show on radio station KSUB (Cedar City, Utah). He also is a sports and news contributor at Cherry Creek Media. He lives in Cedar City, with wife, Marie and five children.