(Photo courtesy Carbon County Sheriff's Department) A truck accident in July 2018 resulted in an 8,000-gallon crude oil leak on Highway 6 in Carbon County. The highway was once considered once of the deadliest in America, but the Utah Department of Transportation says serious-injury accidents there have dropped by 75% since 2006.
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