Wyoming
Baby, Toddler Among 3 Injured in Deadly Wyoming Crash
One individual was killed and three others — together with two juveniles — had been injured in a single-vehicle rollover crash in Carbon County final Saturday, April 15, the Wyoming Freeway Patrol mentioned Thursday.
It occurred round 1:47 p.m. close to mile marker 107 on Wyoming 230 south of Riverside down by the Colorado state line.
Sgt. Jeremy Beck says 33-year-old Saratoga resident Junior Alexander Centeno was behind the wheel of a southbound 2002 GMC Yukon when he failed to barter a slight left-hand curve, went off the correct aspect of the freeway, and rolled the SUV a number of occasions.
Beck says one in all Centeno’s three passengers, 43-year-old Lisa Belit Rey, additionally of Saratoga, was not sporting her seat belt and was fatally injured within the crash.
He says Centeno was flown by helicopter to the Medical Heart of the Rockies, a 3-year-old was flown by helicopter to Kids’s Hospital Colorado, and a child lower than a 12 months outdated was taken by floor ambulance to Memorial Hospital of Carbon County.
Beck says Centeno was sporting his seat belt, however the juveniles weren’t correctly restrained of their youngster seats.
Velocity, driver inattention, and driver fatigue are being investigated as potential contributing elements.
Of the 39 individuals who have died on Wyoming’s highways thus far this 12 months, eight, or 20.51%, have died in crashes in Carbon County.
2022’s Deadliest Wyoming County by Site visitors Deaths
Whereas automotive crashes can happen wherever, 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 turned 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.