SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah, Aug. 8, 2021 (Gephardt Every day) — Relations have recognized the sufferer of Saturday morning’s lethal wrong-way crash as 26-year-old Angelica Dhondup, a younger lady who married her highschool candy coronary heart simply hours earlier than a suspected drunk driver took her life.
In accordance with courtroom paperwork filed by a Utah Freeway Patrol officer, at about 1:10 a.m. Saturday morning, a pickup truck south within the northbound facet of interstate slammed head-on right into a Toyota Corolla at round 2200 south in South Salt Lake.
17 minutes later, Dhondup, recognized by household by way of a GoFundMe web page, was pronounced useless on the scene.
“Friday, August 6, 2021 was purported to be one of many happiest days for my cousin Angelica”, wrote Gina Lucero. “It was essentially the most stunning night time crammed with household and laughter.”
Lucero goes on to write down that the brand new bride was being taken house after the reception when the lethal crash occurred.
“She hadn’t even been married a full 24 hours and is forsaking a widowed husband, 2 younger, good-looking sons and a daughter she was every week away from adopting.”
UHP advised Gephardt Every day {that a} second lady was within the automobile with Dhondup, and rushed to the hospital with critical accidents.
Court docket paperwork present the person accused of crashing into them, recognized as 36-year-old Manaure Gonzalez-Rea, stole a truck belonging to a witness who stopped to assist.
Paperwork present officers stored monitor of the fleeing driver on digicam and have been in a position to cease and arrest him within the space of the I-80 Redwood Street off-ramp intersection.
The arresting officer wrote within the submitting that Gonzalez-Rae examined constructive for alcohol in a preliminary breath take a look at, and that primarily based on his coaching, the person was too impaired to be driving safely.
Gonzales-Rae was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail the place he’s being held with out bond on the next expenses:
- Car murder felony negligence DUI of alcohol/medicine, a second-degree felony
- Theft, a second-degree felony
- Failure to stay at accident involving dying, a third-degree felony
- Driving underneath affect of alcohol and/or medicine, a category A misdemeanor
- Reckless driving, a category B misdemeanor
