Wyoming
1 Killed, 1 Injured in Head-On Crash on Icy Wyoming Mountain Pass
A driver was killed and one other injured in a head-on crash on South Cross late Tuesday morning, the Wyoming Freeway Patrol says.
The crash occurred round 11:40 a.m. close to mile marker 42 on Wyoming 28, about 35 miles south of Lander.
Wyoming Freeway Patrol
In response to a fatality crash abstract, 53-year-old Idaho resident Sean Boyle was behind the wheel of an eastbound GMC Safari when an oncoming Freightliner crossed the centerline and hit him head-on.
Boyle was carrying his seat belt however died from his accidents.
The semi driver was additionally reportedly injured within the crash however the abstract didn’t say to what extent.
The abstract says it was snowing with extreme wind and blowing snow and the freeway was icy and snowy on the time of the crash.
Boyle is the twenty seventh reported individual to die on Wyoming’s highways in 2023 in comparison with 12 in 2022, 17 in 2021, 11 in 2020, and 18 in 2019 thus far.
That is the third freeway fatality in Fremont County this 12 months.
2022’s Deadliest Wyoming County by Site visitors Deaths
Whereas automotive crashes can happen anyplace, some roads in Wyoming are extra harmful than others.
Of these deadly crashes, the bulk (13.68%) occurred in Laramie County — two in January, one in February, one in March, two in April, one in June, two in July, three in August, two in September, one in November, and one in December.
Sweetwater County noticed the second most deadly crashes final 12 months, 12, whereas Fremont and Lincoln counties every noticed 10.
Albany and Park counties every recorded eight, and Campbell, Converse, and Natrona counties every tallied seven.
The deadliest 2022 crash in Laramie County befell on June 17 when two semis collided on Interstate 80 east of Cheyenne and instantly grew to become engulfed in flames killing each drivers and a passenger.
Laramie County additionally noticed two deadly crashes involving motorcyclists, two deadly crashes involving juveniles, and a deadly crash involving a pedestrian final 12 months.