RAWLINS, Wyo. — A Wyoming paramedic was killed and another injured on Thursday, Dec. 21, after an 18-wheeler driver rear-ended their ambulance.
According to a news release from the Wyoming Highway Patrol (WHP), the paramedics were responding to a previous wreck involving a big rig and a pickup truck that was pulling a trailer.
The first wreck happened at 3:35 a.m. at milepost 197 along the westbound lanes of Interstate 80 west of Rawlins, according to the WHP.
At approximately 4:15 a.m., first responders were attending to possible injuries involved in that crash when a 2019 Freightliner, driven by Saviol Saint Gean of Brooklyn, New York, struck two paramedics and collided with the rear of the ambulance.
One of the first responders was critically injured; the other sustained fatal injuries, according to the WHP.
The deceased paramedic was later identified as 29-year-old Tyeler Harris of Saratoga, Wyoming.
The WSP said that driver inattention is being investigated as a possible contributing factor of the crash.
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The truck driver should lose his license for life. It’s crazy the crap I see truck drivers doing while in my travels. I really hope they punish this driver to the fullest, and send a message to the rest that this negligence will not be tolerated any longer.
inattentive or asleep either way lose cdl and face charges.
James Ford; I totally agree, there was no excuse of any kind that any driver would not notice approaching any kind of issue on the highway ahead!!
Take his cdl and put him in jail. negligent, inattentive drivers don’t deserve a job on the road. so sick of reading about people losing their lives over situations that can be be avoided.
They’re not going to do nothing about it all talk just like that Colorado driver losing his brakes slap on the wrist been driving 47 years most of these people I wouldn’t let drive my wheel barrow
Heart and prayers go out the paramedic who was slain. Horrible all the way around.