LARAMIE, Wyoming - A Quebec man has been arrested on a charge of aggravated vehicular homicide following a massive chain-reaction crash on a highway in southeast Wyoming.
Trucks and cars piled into one another Monday in dense fog on Interstate 80, resulting in a fiery crash that killed one person and sent up a column of thick black smoke.
The pileup occurred around 8 a.m., after two commercial trucks collided, causing one to jackknife in both westbound lanes, Wyoming Highway Patrol Sgt. David Wagener said.
Dozens of other vehicles piled into the crash. Among the 59 vehicles involved was a tanker containing a flammable liquid that caught fire and required foam to put it out.
An estimated 20 to 25 people were taken to Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie. Of those, three were admitted and one was transferred to a hospital in Denver.
Wagener said Alex Dragaytsev, 45, of Longueuil, was arrested on a charge of aggravated vehicular homicide after the crash.
