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Posted: 4/1/2005 8:50:17 AM EDT

Salt Lake Tribune News from 3/27/05

CANNON OVERSHOOTS TARGET
A 20-pound artillery shell loaded with too much gunpowder overshot its Provo Canyon avalanche target Wednesday by about three miles, exploding in the back yard of a Pleasant Grove couple's house and piercing three homes with shrapnel.
The Utah Department of Transportation fired the 105 mm shell from a howitzer artillery cannon toward the Lost Creek slide path area in Provo Canyon about two miles away. But the shell kept going.
UDOT didn't realize the shell had exploded in Scott Connors' back yard at 1665 E. 480 South - creating a 3-foot-wide crater that was a foot deep - until the 911 calls began to come in.
The military sends the shells to UDOT pre-loaded with seven packages of gunpowder. The operators were supposed to remove two. Instead, it was fired fully loaded, and rocketed into the neighborhood.
"We took full responsibility for this incident, and we're extremely grateful no one was hurt," said Carlos Braceras of UDOT.

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