SALT LAKE CITY -- The Utah State athletes injured in a highway accident apparently were not wearing seatbelts.
The Utah Highway Patrol said Saturday preliminary indications show that was the case.
Four football players and a former softball player were hurt in Trenton on Friday when a tractor-trailer collided with their SUV. Trenton is 20 miles north of Logan, where the university is located.
The driver, Travis Seefeldt, was airlifted by helicopter to a hospital and is in critical condition. Sarah Vasquez was in the front passenger seat and was also airlifted and is in critical condition. Edmund Faimalo, Adewald Adeoye and John Taylor were taken to hospitals in ambulances.
Truck driver Steve Randall and his passenger son were medically cleared on the scene.
Witnesses said the athletes' Chevy Tahoe was eastbound on state Route 142 when it pulled into the intersection with state Route 23 and was T-boned by the southbound semi.