RAWLINS, Wyoming, March 3, 2020 (Gephardt Daily) — Wyoming Highway Patrol officials say Interstate 80, west of Rawlins, is expected to reopen sometime between noon and 4 p.m. Tuesday, two days after the chain-reaction crash that killed three people and left and estimated 100 vehicles — many of them semis — twisted on the icy highway.
At about 8 a.m. Tuesday, WHP tweeted the reopening estimate that I-80 would reopen between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. But at noon, WHP revised that estimate to 10 p.m. to midnight Tuesday for the I-80 reopening.
Graphic video taken by trucker David Cuarezma shows dozens of mangled trucks and cars piled on top of each other, while motorists caught up in the accident attempt to free others pinned inside their vehicles.
First responders from Sweetwater County joined Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers in the rescue efforts.
Gephardt Daily will update this story as more information is made available.
