Lockhart Basin is remote, rough country, and this story shows why. The Moab Sun News reports that emergency crews responded to a vehicle rollover with the driver still inside on Wednesday, October 21.

What we know

  • Grand County EMS, the Moab Valley Fire Department and Grand County Search and Rescue all responded
  • The fire department sent its REMS UTV, which carried the patient to a waiting ambulance
  • The vehicle in the photo shared by EMS was a pickup with a camper shell lying on its side
  • The post did not name the patient, describe their condition or say what caused the rollover

Grand County EMS said the REMS team and equipment were built for wildland fire deployments but help crews reach people in the county's backcountry when the team is in town.

Our take

We hope the driver is doing OK. Lockhart Basin is a long way from help, and a tall, heavy rig like a pickup with a camper sits differently on off camber ground than a Jeep. Know your vehicle's limits, scout anything that makes you nervous, travel with at least one other rig and carry a way to call for help where phones don't reach.