Fiery I-80 Crash Near Green River Claims Two Lives

Two Californians are dead following a rear-end collision on Interstate 80, the Wyoming Highway Patrol says.

Crash Details

The crash happened around 5:20 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 8, near Green River.

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According to a fatality crash summary, 36-year-old Aleksey Fedun was behind the wheel of an eastbound Volvo combination unit when he left his lane of travel and rear-ended a Freightliner combination unit that was stopped on the south shoulder, rupturing the fuel tank and causing a significant fire in the Volvo's cab.

Sadly, Fedun and his passenger, 74-year-old Volodymyr Fedun, didn't survive the crash. The other trucker was uninjured.

Possible Contributing Factors

The summary lists driver inattention and driver fatigue/asleep as possible contributing factors.

The Feduns are the 12th and 13th reported people to die on Wyoming's highways this year.

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