Truck blown over and crushes Wy Troopers car

Dagnabbit, you beat me by 30 seconds

 

From this morning---

 

I'd be curious to know what that truck had in the box and what advisory/notice that section of road was under at the time, and for how long.

 

The accident happened on 2/7/17 on Elk Mountain, don't know the weight, but I do know that entire area was under Extreme Blowover Risk, No light high profile vehicles

 

Move Over or Lay Down for Stopped Emergency Vehicles

 

I was in Rawlins on Feb 6 shutdown for 1 day waiting for the High Wind Warning to be lifted / I was logged onto wyoroad.info on the 7th @ 0345 hours MT / @ 0400 hours MT wyoroad.info was updated and the High Wind Warning was lifted; winds downgraded to STRONG... YELLOW ALERT / @ 79K lbs. I started my run to Cheyenne before sunrise in wind gusts up to 40MPH without incident to have my load REPWR'D by a team / My REPWR'D load from the team was a westbound load / After sunrise in Cheyenne the High Wind Warning was posted again on wyoroad.info and I shutdown on the 7th for 1 day / On the 8th the High Wind Warning was lifted after sundown / I departed Cheyenne in the evening on the 8th with strong winds, YELLOW ALERT, gusting to 40MPH / Driving up thru Laramie the wind was gusting to 43MPH, Arlington 41MPH... info from broadcasted NOAA weather radio report / As I approached westbound Elk Mtn., I saw the blown-over rig 1 mile east of the Elk Mtn. exit 255 / I made it safely down Elk Mtn. & completed my trip with no incident

 

Crazy !
Some of the officers are brainless and ####y deserve their destiny, stopping very close to driving lane; even this one have to watch him when opens the door .There's plenty of room on the shoulder and is stopped behind the curve the truck driver has a car passing him,didn't see him in time to move over .

 

Went through that yesterday after coming up from Denver. Ft. Collins had some blowovers...a Western Flyer trailer and an MVT trailer(no tractors though) in the median. Maybe they were left there on purpose to serve as a reminder...who knows. A little ways up was Hummer that had the front of the trailer pushed out and boxes spilling out. Not sure what happened there but it was upright. Cheyenne to about Rawlins was bad with the wind gusts. I was at 79,200lbs and if I were much lighter, I'd have parked it in Cheyenne. Little America to Evanston was hit hard with snow and slushy roads but temps stayed around 30 deg and calm winds. There's my weather report for ya'll!