
© Blaine McCartney/Wyoming Tribune EagleA truck driver speaks on the phone after his semitractor-trailer combination blew over in the southbound lane on Interstate 25 near the interchange with Interstate 80 on Monday in Cheyenne. High winds caused numerous accidents mainly south of Cheyenne, resulting in the temporary closure of I-25 leading to Colorado.
With wind gusts topping 60 miles per hour Monday, semitractor-trailer combinations were tottering and tipping on highways near Cheyenne.
A wind advisory was out most of the day for light, high-profile vehicles, such as trucks with empty cargo compartments.
But despite those warnings,
nine semitractor-trailers had blown over on Interstate 25 between Cheyenne and the Colorado border between 9:26 a.m. and 5:15 p.m., according to Lt. David Wagener of the Wyoming Highway Patrol. The interstate was closed for about an hour around 3:30 p.m. to clean up crashes in both lanes, according to emails from the Wyoming Department of Transportation.
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