Five people killed after truck drives wrong way down Interstate 80 in Wyoming

All 5 folks had been occupants of a Ford F-150 that was struck by a business truck, which was making an attempt to keep away from the pickup touring the flawed method on the freeway.

The crash occurred simply earlier than 7 p.m. east of Rawlins as a Dodge Ram 3500 drove east on the flawed facet of the interstate. The pickup struck each a passenger automobile and a business truck, the freeway patrol reported.

Because the Dodge collided with the automobile, the motive force of a second business truck tried to keep away from the approaching pickup by driving within the median.  Within the course of, that truck entered the eastbound lanes, the place it collided head-on with the Ford F-150. Each of these automobiles then burst into flames.

A number of folks had been additionally critically injured within the chain-reaction wreck and brought to hospitals.

Authorities arrested the Dodge’s driver on suspicion of being underneath the affect whereas behind the wheel. That individual, who was not recognized, might face extra costs, the patrol mentioned.

Three extra folks died on Wyoming highways over the weekend.

On Saturday, a Colorado man died after a 15-year-old driver misplaced management of a truck on an ice-covered stretch of Interstate 25. Adam Mitchell, 49, of Laporte, Colorado, was not sporting a seat belt and died on the scene of the crash close to Wheatland.

The 15-year-old and one other man had been injured.

Then on Sunday morning, two Missouri males died when the windshield of the semi-truck they had been touring in indifferent throughout a crash they usually had been buried underneath roughly 2 ft of snow. The snow solidified, trapping each males within the semi-truck’s sleeper berth.   

A Wyoming Freeway Patrol report recognized the 2 males as driver Keith Koehler II, 39, and passenger Tyler Judd, 40.