Deadly crashes and fire in Wyoming highway tunnel started with pickup losing control, NTSB says
Hindustan Times— A series of chain-reaction crashes and a fire in a Wyoming highway tunnel that killed three people started when a pickup truck lost control and partially blocked traffic on the slick roadway, federal investigators said Wednesday. Deadly crashes and fire in Wyoming highway tunnel started with pickup losing control, NTSB says It had snowed before the Feb. 14 crashes along Interstate 80, the primary east-west road corridor through Wyoming, near the small town of Green River, Wyoming. The highway was wet with possible ice or slush near the tunnel exit when a westbound Toyota pickup drove out of the tunnel and spun, hitting a guardrail before stopping, blocking the right lane and part of the left lane, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report. That second tractor-trailer, entangled with the Dodge truck, hit the jackknifed tractor-trailer again before hitting the Toyota and another truck outside the tunnel, the NTSB said.
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