In the early morning of December 17, 2024, Trooper Carlos Rios-Redd was on a routine graveyard shift, unaware that the next call for service would significantly impact many lives, including his own. While working on reports near the local Utah Highway Patrol (UHP) office, he was dispatched to a wrong-way driver traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of Interstate 15. In an effort to intercept the suspected wrong-way driver, Trooper Rios-Redd stopped his work on reports and increased his speed to turn around at the next exit. Unbeknownst to him, the wrong-way driver was actually traveling northbound in the southbound lanes of Interstate 15 and was approaching his location. As he crested a hill on a freeway structure at milepost 269, he was hit head-on by the wrong-way driver he was intending to interdict. This tragedy happened in a split second, and there was nothing Trooper Rios-Redd could have done to avoid the collision.

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