Posted on 11/30/2025 4:59:49 AM PST by TheDon
SALT LAKE CITY — A young Utah couple heading to Idaho were killed early Saturday after being struck head-on by a wrong-way driver on Interstate 15 in Salt Lake City.
The Utah Highway Patrol said a driver was headed the wrong way in the northbound lanes on the highway at approximately 2 a.m. when he slammed into another vehicle near 2100 South.
Both occupants in the vehicle that was hit, Anneka Wilson and Leo Shepherd, both 18 years old, suffered fatal injuries and died at the scene.
The driver of the wrong-way vehicle, Jose Jimenez, suffered only minor injuries and has been arrested and faces two charges of automobile homicide, driving under the influence and wrong way driving, and violation of his learner's permit.
Jimenez, 21, was driving on a learner's permit at the time of the incident. Court documents state he admitted that he did not feel safe to be driving at the time.
Wilson and Shepherd were driving to Idaho to spend the remainder of the Thanksgiving weekend at her aunt's farm.
The Wilson family said Anneka, who was from Springville, was about to graduate from high school and had her sights set on attending college and studying radiology.
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In a way, people who drive while intoxicated are committing attempted murder even when they don’t have a wreck.
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