Accident in fog on I-80 in Wyoming involved 21 vehicles _ trucks, cars, bus; 1 woman killed

Fatal I-80 accident in Wyo. involved 21 vehicles

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The Wyoming Highway Patrol says 21 vehicles were involved in pile-up that killed a Rock Springs woman and closed part of Interstate 80 for about 10 hours.

Lt. Troy McLees with the Highway Patrol says the accident happened about 9 a.m. Wednesday when a semitrailer jackknifed in foggy conditions on icy eastbound I-80, about 3 miles west of Wamsutter in south-central Wyoming.

Other vehicles then slammed into each other at the scene.

McLees says the crash ultimately involved 12 semitrailers, eight passenger vehicles and a school bus. Nobody on the bus was hurt.

McLees says 40-year-old Valerie Rutstein was driving one of the passenger vehicles and was killed. He says two other people spent the night in a hospital.