WILSON, Wyo. — The Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) alerted drivers that a crash had occurred on WY22 at 7:54 a.m. on Thursday, April 24.
“Travel lane blocked near Jackson at milepost 5.5,” the alert reads. “Be prepared to stop, expect delays.”
By 8:50 a.m., a flipped vehicle rested on the grass near the roadway in downtown Wilson as Teton Pass traffic crawled past, but the travel lane was no longer blocked.
Update, 1 p.m.: According to Brad Latchaw with Wyoming Highway Patrol, a box truck lost its brakes traveling down the Pass toward Jackson, which Latchaw attributed to the driver’s failure to down-shift. The box truck reportedly took a side mirror off of a black pickup truck and sideswiped a vehicle as it traveled down WY22 before swerving into oncoming traffic, hitting a guardrail and then T-boning a Jackson-bound SUV.
The SUV rolled over after being hit. Both vehicles came to rest on the roadside in downtown Wilson.
The two SUV passengers were transported to the hospital with minor injuries and have been released already, Latchaw said. No other injuries were reported. The box truck driver was ticketed for careless driving and for driving without the proper commercial driver’s license.
Latchaw added that the box truck had been spotted at the top of the Pass, where the driver had pulled over.
