A fiery pileup Friday at an Interstate 80 tunnel in southwestern Wyoming killed at the very least two folks, critically injured at the very least 5 others and shut down the freeway.
The crash concerned an unknown variety of vehicles and different automobiles inside and out of doors the tunnel at Inexperienced River.
Black smoke and exploding tires made getting inside troublesome for rescuers, Wyoming Freeway Patrol trooper Nicholas Warren stated.
The crash within the twin tunnel’s westbound tube late Friday morning closed the freeway in each instructions, with nonetheless no estimate by late afternoon when it could reopen.
Freeway visitors was being rerouted by Inexperienced River.
A press release from close by Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County urged folks to not go to until that they had an emergency or household within the “mass casualty” wreck.
Hospital spokeswoman Lena Warren stated she didn’t know but what number of victims had been admitted.
The quarter-mile (400-meter) tunnel goes beneath Citadel Rock, a sandstone formation that stands over Inexperienced River, the Sweetwater County seat of 11,500 folks.
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