A dashcam video reported by FOX 13 News Utah shows a vehicle traveling the wrong way in the northbound HOV lane of Interstate 15 near 600 South in Salt Lake City shortly after 11:15 a.m. on November 8, 2026. The footage documents a brief, dangerous encounter, but does not by itself establish what happened afterward.
According to FOX 13 News Utah, the video was recorded by driver Jake Troy. It shows the oncoming vehicle approach an SUV in the HOV lane, then move across several lanes; the footage appears to show it make contact with a white Dodge Durango. Troy's vehicle avoids the apparent collision, and he can be heard asking a passenger if they are okay.
The Utah Highway Patrol told FOX 13 it was unaware of an incident on I-15 near 600 South and said it would look into what happened.
A Familiar Stretch of Highway
This is not the first reported wrong-way incident near 600 South. On July 13, 2025, a driver entered I-15 there and traveled about 33 blocks south in a northbound lane before being stopped, according to Gephardt Daily. The driver and the Utah Highway Patrol trooper involved were each taken to a hospital to be checked for injuries.
Wrong-way crashes have also turned deadly elsewhere in the state. On Nov. 29, 2025, a wrong-way crash on I-15 in Salt Lake City killed a young couple, and a DUI suspect was later charged with vehicular homicide in that case, Gephardt Daily reported. In Utah County, a 26-year-old was arrested after allegedly heading southbound in the northbound lanes near Lehi, a separate incident flagged by FOX 13 News Utah as deliberate.
What the Numbers Show
Despite the string of frightening close calls and fatal crashes, wrong-way driving incidents in Utah have actually trended downward recently. The state recorded 15 wrong-way crashes in 2025, down from 24 the year before, per the same FOX 13 report on statewide trends. From 2020 through 2024, 72 of the 303 wrong-way drivers involved in crashes statewide were found to be impaired.
Since 2023, the Utah Department of Transportation has installed alert systems on certain highway ramps designed to detect wrong-way drivers, and those systems have flagged 216 such drivers so far, the station's report notes. Officials caution that the state's crash figures are based on submitted reports, and not every wrong-way driving incident is necessarily captured in that data.
For now, the November 8 episode near 600 South remains another reminder of how quickly an ordinary commute on I-15 can turn dangerous. With the Utah Highway Patrol saying only that it would look into what happened, the identity and fate of the wrong-way driver caught on Troy's dashcam remain unknown.
