Body identified as driver of wrecked car found 3 weeks earlier

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SALT LAKE CITY — The Iron County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday announced that the body of a man found in a field north of Kanarraville was the driver of a crashed vehicle located 20 days earlier.

On Feb. 29, deputies were called to a field at a farm where the body of a man was found. At the time, the man believed to be in his mid-20s could not be identified “due to the condition of the body and the lack of any personal identification documents. It appears cold weather was believed to be a contributing factor in the death,” the sheriff's office said Thursday in a prepared statement.

The body was taken to the Utah State Medical Examiner’s Office in an effort to determine the man’s identity and cause of death.

As the investigation continued, detectives determined the 22-year-old Taylorsville man was the registered owner of a vehicle found crashed and abandoned on I-15 during a snowstorm on Feb. 9, according to the sheriff's office.

“The condition of the body and other preliminary findings indicate the extreme cold weather and snowfall, on the day of the crash, caused the male to succumb to the environmental conditions after he walked away from the vehicle toward the town of Kanaraville,” the sheriff’s office said.

The name of the man was not released Thursday pending notification of family members.

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