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Caught on camera: Semi truck slams into Garden City store

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GARDEN CITY, Utah — The driver of a semi truck who crashed into a sporting goods store Wednesday night has died.

Ahmed M. Abdelgader, 31, of Omaha, Nebraska died Thursday morning following the wreck, Utah Highway Patrol confirmed.

Sgt. Cade Brenchley says Abdelgader and a passenger were headed north on US-89 around 6:30 p.m. when their semi blew past a stop sign, seemingly unable to stop.

There were reports that the semi was driving recklessly through the canyon, according to UHP. Abdelgader tried to turn right onto SR-30, but UHP believes excessive speed caused it to roll on its side and slide into Pugstones Sporting Goods.

Survellance video from a Shell gas station across the street captured the impact on camera.

“Like thunder, large rumble, vibrations through the whole building, basically,” Kaileb Preston, a cashier at the gas station, told Fox 13 Utah. He was working when the crash happened.

Nobody in the sporting goods store was injured, but the building is no longer structurally safe.

“Had this been in the middle of the summer, this could have been catastrophic,” said Sgt. Brenchley. “There is hundreds, thousands of people milling about during the summer.”

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