COVID-19 helps kill Utahns on highways — from more speeding on less-crowded roads

COVID-19 continues to help kill and hospitalize Utahns in an unexpected and collateral way: in car crashes.During a monthly update about highway fatalities, the Utah Transportation Commission was told Friday that traffic volume and crashes have been way down because of COVD-19 restrictions keeping more people home — but deaths and serious injuries are up anyway.“The roads are open, and people are traveling faster. So, when they are in crashes, those crashes tend to be more serious,&r