St. George • A family grieves after a brother and sister died within 48 hours of one another in two fatal crashes at one Bluff Street intersection last week.
On Friday, first responders were dispatched to the scene of the auto-pedestrian collision at 8:47 p.m. at the intersection of Bluff Street and 500 North, where they found a male pedestrian unresponsive. Officers and medical staff attempted life-saving measures, but the man ultimately succumbed to his injuries.
He was later identified as Matthew Jones of St. George by his sister Valerie Jones, who told St. George News that her brother lived near the intersection where he was killed.
Her sister, Mardelle Parkin, 37, was killed in essentially the same location on Nov. 1 when officers and emergency responders were called out on a report of a crash involving a female pedestrian who was struck and killed by a pickup truck, she said.
She and her brother were together at the scene on Wednesday evening, hugging, when she told him, “Nothing better ever happen to you.”
Little did she know, she said, that statement would come back to haunt her when she returned to the same intersection two nights later.
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