Two Serious, Multi-vehicle Crashes on I-80, Wyoming (with video)

Around 3:39 p.m. on Sunday, March 1, 2020, Wyoming Highway Patrol was notified of two crashes involving multiple vehicles on Interstate 80, one eastbound near milepost 181 and the other on the westbound side at 184.

Photo: Wyoming Highway Patrol

There were 30 vehicles involved in the multiple crashes on the westbound side of the Interstate, and three people were killed.

The Golden Rule of Safe Driving would have prevented this! (Below)

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Lethal Underride Crashes Between Cars and Large Trucks — and what you can do to avoid one

One of the many killers on American roads and highways that never gets enough attention is underride crashes (a.k.a. under-run), when cars collide with and then get crushed underneath the rear or the side of a large truck — typically a semi-tractor-trailer.

This crash happened in Jacksonville, FL, on the afternoon of January 25, 2020, and as can be seen, the car ran right underneath the semi-trailer. (Cropped photo, by kind permission of Mellissa Dzion.)
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Roadside Memorials Commemorating U.S. Road Crash Victims

During the defensive- and advanced-driver instructing that I’ve done in over forty American states and six Canadian provinces, I have long-since lost count of how many crash victim’s roadside memorials I have happened to see — it is, of course, an excessive number because far too many people are killed and injured in road crashes every year.

A crash victim's roadside memorial.
A lonely, anonymous memorial to a road crash victim alongside an interstate highway. (Copyright image, 2018.)

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Schoharie Limousine Tragedy — Shocking Revelations about Mavis Tires

A few days ago, as a retired traffic patrol police officer who has investigated many serious and fatal crashes, I decided to take a closer look at the scene of the tragic limousine crash at Schoharie, NY.

This is the first of the hill warning signs.  It clearly has had warning flags attached above it at some stage, to draw more attention to it, but these have long-since fallen apart.  (Copyright image, 2019.)

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