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A 77-year-old woman, the only survivor of a fiery weekend crash that killed her husband and another man over the weekend in east-central Salt Lake City, remained in critical condition Monday.
Salt Lake City police said that 34-year-old Fernando Jiminez-Martinez, of West Jordan, was dead at the scene of the 3 p.m. Friday accident. Jeoffry Dahl, 77, died at the hospital later Saturday, police confirmed.
Dahl was driving an SUV that slammed into the back of Jiminez-Martinez's smaller car at the intersection of 100 East and 500 South. The impact propelled the car nearly two blocks and into a steel pole near a TRAX light rail line, where the vehicle erupted in flames.
Police were investigating whether Dahl may have suffered a medical issue — possibly a heart attack — prior to the crash.
SLCPD said that Dahl's wife, who was a passenger in the SUV, remained in critical condition Monday.
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