Eight dead in pileup on Interstate 15 near Kanosh after sandstorm blinds drivers

Five of the dead were members of the same family.

By Sean P. Means

and Scott D. Pierce

| July 26, 2021, 5:05 a.m.

| Updated: 10:50 p.m.

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