Wyoming
Wyoming Sisters Killed After Pickup Spins Out, Hit by Semi
Two Powell, Wyoming sisters had been killed Friday after the pickup they had been touring in spun out and was hit by an oncoming semi, the Freeway Patrol says.
The crash occurred round 12:45 p.m. close to mile marker 14 on U.S. 14A, between Cody and Powell.
Wyoming Freeway Patrol
In accordance with a fatality crash abstract, 22-year-old Shannah Nelson and 20-year-old Wendy Nelson had been touring east in a Chevrolet Silverado when Shannah, who was behind the wheel, misplaced management of the pickup on an ice-covered bridge deck.
“The Silverado began spinning in a counterclockwise path throughout all 5 freeway lanes and into the trail of the oncoming tractor-trailer,” the abstract reads. “The Silverado impacted the entrance of the tractor-trailer with the tailgate space, inflicting extreme harm to the pickup truck.”
Shannah and Wendy, neither of whom was carrying a seat belt, died on the scene. The trucker was not injured within the crash.
Pace is listed as a potential contributing issue.
The sisters are the twenty fourth and twenty fifth reported individuals to die on Wyoming’s highways in 2023 in comparison with 12 in 2022, 17 in 2021, seven in 2020, and 18 in 2019 so far.
In accordance with their obituaries (see under), Shannah liked God and her household and was obsessed with her horses and cattle, and Wendy liked working with and using horses and actually loved baking for her household and her mother’s restaurant, Relaxation Awhile Cafe.
OBITUARIES
Funeral companies are scheduled for Thursday, March 2, at 10 a.m. on the New Life Church in Powell.
2022’s Deadliest Wyoming County by Visitors Deaths
Whereas automobile 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 yr, 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 happened 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 yr.