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A collision that occurred about five miles south of Lander, Wyoming, took the lives of five people, including a 17-year-old Lander High School student. The head-on collision happened on Wyoming Highway 789 on November 10 when a Chevy Tahoe driven by the student crossed over the centerline into the opposite line, hitting a van. The… read more
A Chevy Suburban containing a mom and eight teenagers slid off the edge of the road and into a ravine outside of Jackson Hole, Wyoming last week. Holly Galbraith, 35, was driving her daughter, along with the seven other teenagers, to an Especially For Youth event in Rexburg, Idaho when she hit a slick patch… read more
A medical malpractice lawsuit with our Denver injury attorney Tom Metier as trial council resulted in a record $9 million verdict in Wyoming last month. According to the Casper Star-Tribune, the award against the Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Gillette goes far beyond the previous record of $1.5 million. In 2008, a truck driver for… read more
The Colorado State Patrol is targeting a stretch of about 17 miles on Interstate 25 near Fort Collins to increase awareness about traffic laws. Authorities have designated this section of highway as one of the more dangerous stretches of road in the state, with 39 injury or fatal crashes in 2010 and 38 in 2009.… read more
Police have arrested a man on charges of vehicular homicide and two counts of aggravated assault in connection with a fatal car crash last month in Casper, Wyoming. Authorities have determined that Larry Turner was driving the Cadillac they found on its roof that night, along with three other passengers. 24-year-old Dylan Brock was pronounced… read more
Casper, Wyoming was the scene of a deadly car accident the evening of October 31, leaving two city residents dead and two other people hospitalized in the Wyoming Medical Center. Four males were traveling at a high rate of speed, according to authorities, in a blue Chrysler Eagle when they approached a stop sign at… read more
Most of us learned to look both ways before we crossed the street, and it is an ingrained behavior in the majority of people. As much as this habit helps keep us safe, sometimes it is not enough to prevent an accident. Automobiles move quickly, and depending on a variety of factors, they can be… read more
Eighteen-wheeler trucks, while extremely useful, have the potential to be the most dangerous things on the road. This becomes particularly true if they break traffic laws. In a fatal truck accident in Glenwood Springs this summer, a logging truck driver allegedly ran a red light, slamming into a Jeep making a left turn. Authorities pronounced… read more
There have been two fatalities in the past week on Wyoming state roadways, one caused by strange behavior and the other by illegal behavior. Each fatality leads us to wonder why the people involved chose to do what they did. The first fatality happened when a 22-year old Riverton man decided to stand in the… read more
If you have ever been downtown in a city and turned the wrong way down a one-way street, you might have found the experience both comical and a bit scary. Driving the wrong way down the interstate, though, is no laughing matter. State Troopers received a multitude of phone calls late Friday night reporting an… read more
