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GILLETTE (WNE) — Two Gillette residents were killed in a two-car crash about 9 a.m. Thursday about 34 miles south of Gillette on Highway 59 near Breene Road.
A Ford E-350 with seven people …
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GILLETTE (WNE) — Two Gillette residents were killed in a two-car crash about 9 a.m. Thursday about 34 miles south of Gillette on Highway 59 near Breene Road.
A Ford E-350 with seven people inside was headed southbound on Highway 59 when it rotated counterclockwise due to the snow and ice on the road and went into the opposite lane, said Wyoming Highway Patrol Sgt. Jeremy Beck.
A 33-year-old man in a Ford F-150 was driving north and veered to the right to avoid a crash, but the two vehicles ended up colliding on the east shoulder of the road, Beck said.
Two passengers in the E-350, Michele Renaud, 38, and Nicholas Tabler, 47, were pronounced dead at the scene. Renaud was killed instantly from blunt force trauma, said County Coroner Paul Wallem. Tabler was ejected from the car and died instantly, Wallem said.
Firefighters extricated two other people from one of the vehicles, and a total of six people — the driver of the F-150 and five from the E-350 — were taken in two ambulances to Campbell County Memorial Hospital for treatment.
Traffic was shut down for more than two hours, said Sheriff Scott Matheny.
