A 23-year-old Sammamish man died Aug. 19 in a fiery crash on Interstate 15, just north of Fillmore, Utah, according to the Utah Highway Patrol. The accident occurred around midnight.

The driver, Derek J. White of Sammamish, had been driving a Honda Civic northbound when he entered a construction zone. The two-lane highway was reduced to one lane, requiring traffic to merge left.

His tires contacted the rumble strip on the left, and he overcorrected to the right, Trooper Trevor Atkinson said.

White then steered sharply back to the left, heading toward the median. The vehicle went off the road before White sharply steered right, which sent the car into a spin heading back toward the travel lanes.

Finally, the Honda came to a stop sideways in the left travel lane. Shortly thereafter, a semitrailer traveling northbound struck the Honda. Because White’s vehicle was facing west in the northbound lane, the semitrailer’s driver did not see the vehicle.

The impact sent both vehicles to the right, through a fence, stopped and caught fire.

White was pinned in his vehicle. The driver and his passenger in the semitrailer survived with no injuries, Atkinson said.

The investigation is ongoing. It is unclear why White drifted to the left of the lane initially, Atkinson said.