Selfie taken before 3 friends died showed harrowing detail they missed

Three friends missed a haunting detail in a selfie that might have saved their lives.

It’s not unusual for a group of friends to be so focused on getting a photo that they practically forget all else around them. Sadly, the consequences are seldom so dire as when a trio of Utah girls lost their lives in truly tragic circumstances.

The incident, which rocked a local community, took place back in 2011, when teens Essa Ricker, Kelsea Webster, and Kelsea’s younger sister Savannah, ventured past the Covered Bridge Canyon crossing, a few minutes away from Spanish Fork.

Utah County sheriff Sgt Spencer Cannon would later explain how the three friends stopped to wave at engineers on the Utah Railway train, completely unaware that a Union Pacific carrier was headed in the opposite direction.