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One Killed In Tractor Trailer Rollover Near Meadowlark Lake
One person is dead after the vehicle that he or she was in, rolled near Meadowlark Lake in Big Horn County.
According to Worland Fire Protection District #1, sometime before 9am on Thursday (April 10th), a call came in regarding a tractor-trailer rollover with entrapment on US Highway 16, between mileposts 46 and 47, in the vicinity of the North Cove of the Lake.
A spokesperson for the District, says the unidentified single occupant died from injuries sustained in the incident.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol says the individual was a 58-year old from Texas, was wearing a seatbelt and that speed was a contributing factor in the crash.
Roads were dry at the time of the incident.
This is the 23rd highway fatality so far this year, compared to 17 at this time last year.
David Blakeman
April 12, 2025 at 9:44 pm
My Grandpa crashed on that very curve back in the early ’70s while driving truck for Jim’s Water Service of Gillete.
He survived thanks to his heavy sleeping bag and the owners of Meadowlark Lodge finding him with his time nearly out.
Those same fine people, sadly,were killed in a crash on the Mountain a few years later.