5 dead in Wyoming highway crashes caused by wrong-way driver

SINCLAIR, Wyo. — A collection of crashes brought on by a wrong-way driver on Interstate 80 killed 5 individuals and significantly injured others in south-central Wyoming.

The motive force has been arrested on suspicion of driving whereas impaired, based on a Wyoming Freeway Patrol assertion.

Freeway Patrol troopers bought phrase of the Dodge Ram headed east within the westbound lanes minutes earlier than the pickup truck collided with a passenger automotive and business truck close to Sinclair on Sunday evening. The motive force of one other business truck then swerved onto the median to keep away from the wreck, based on the assertion Monday.

The second business truck crossed the freeway and hit an eastbound Ford F-150 pickup truck head on, engulfing the 2 vehicles in flames.

The second crash killed all 5 individuals contained in the Ford pickup. Others have been taken to hospitals with crucial accidents.

The patrol assertion didn’t say what number of others have been injured or establish anybody concerned, together with the alleged wrong-way driver.

Sinclair is about 140 miles (225 kilometers) west of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and 300 miles (480 kilometers) east of Salt Lake Metropolis.