Three Concessions Employees Injured In Accident

Rangers were called out to a report of a rollover accident with injuries in Zion Canyon shortly after midnight on May 24th. Responding rangers found that the five occupants – all concessions employees returning from St. George – had gotten out of the vehicle on their own and that all but the driver had hitched a ride to the lodge up the canyon. The driver, Crecensiano Garcia, 47, was uninjured but arrested and charged with driving under the influence. Park and Springdale EMS units transported three of the passengers to Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. George for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. One was later found to have suffered a fractured back in the accident. Canyon district ranger Kevin Killian was IC.