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© Rex OlsenThis is a picture of the car that landed in the sinkhole.
Tabiona - A teenage girl is dead and two people injured after a road collapsed, leaving a 40-foot wide gap in an eastern Utah highway.

The Utah Highway Patrol says heavy rainfall opened the hole more than 30 feet deep along State Highway 35 late Wednesday. It happened near Tabiona, a town about 80 miles east of Salt Lake City.

The highway patrol says 15-year-old Justine Barneck died after the SUV she was riding in crashed as it approached the hole a few minutes after the collapse. Her father, 59-year-old Michael Barneck, was injured in the accident.

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© Kevin Ashbv / Vernal ExpressA home sits on the other side of a large sinkhole that was created from a heavy rainstorm washing out a culvert under state Road 35 in Tabiona Wednesday night.
The driver of a second car that plunged into the gap, 37-year-old Heidi Paulson, also was hurt.

The road remained closed Thursday. An investigation is under way.