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Pickup flips over median, collides with oncoming semi truck

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A Utah man lost his life after colliding with a semi truck in Spanish Fork, Utah around 5:45 a.m. Friday.

The Utah Highway Patrol said a man in a Ford Ranger pickup truck was driving on I-15 northbound when he lost control near 8000 South.

UHP said the pickup truck may have hit a patch of black ice then flipped over the median after hitting cable fence wires and went into oncoming traffic, where he was hit by a semi truck on I-15 southbound.

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The man in the pickup truck died at the scene. The semi truck driver went to the hospital in fair condition.

All traffic was diverted off the freeway until about 9:30 a.m., when the highway was reopened.

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