Vehicle hits moose near milepost 485 canyon area

Heard on: Cache County Public Safety

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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Delta 92, the driver said that the moose is going to be in about milepost 485,

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maybe a little further up Canyon from that, and it will be down on the stream side.

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It'll be on the left-hand side while you're going up Canyon.

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That's rough.

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Going to be between Franklin Basin Turnoff and the Beaver Mountain Turnoff.

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They said it was maybe 20-30 feet off the road, down towards the stream, laid down after they hit it.

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Looks like a glancing blow off the passenger side.

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Copy, that was 485 between Franklin Basin and Beaver Mountain Turnoff,

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20-30 feet off the road to the left.

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Delta 92, it looks like the wheel well trim on the front also got broken off.

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So you see some blue wheel well trim, that's where they hit.

2026-11-07 08:25 UTC

Traffic

East, US-89, Garden City, UT 84028

Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, radio traffic reports a vehicle apparently struck a moose near milepost 485 in a canyon between the Franklin Basin and Beaver Mountain turnoffs. The moose was reportedly 20 to 30 feet off the road toward a stream, and the vehicle had a glancing passenger-side impact with broken wheel-well trim.