Photos suggest that traffic was backed up for quite a while. And when the Powell Panthers Varsity Boys Soccer Team were coming back from a came and saw the situation, they did the only thing that made sense.
When Mathers was last seen, the area had about two feet of snow. A winter storm moved through Wednesday and Thursday, leaving another 12-14 inches and covering any trace of Mathers' direction of travel.
Troopers are investigating the possibility that Kendrick failed to yield to traffic after stopping at a stop sign as a contributing factor in the crash.