Caught on dashcam: Trooper nearly hit by semi-truck on a Wyoming highway
Dashcam footage shows the trooper looking up just in time, scrambling for traction and out of the path of the incoming truck.
WYDOT official on trooper avoiding semi-truck: 'Pretty scary incident'
Cody Beers, Public Relations Specialist at Wyoming Department of Transportation, weighs in on the state trooper who narrowly escaped an out-of-control semi-truck during winter weather. Beers noted strong winds along with heavy snow continue impacting The Equality State.
RAWLINS, Wyo. – A Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper is lucky to be alive after a semi nearly hit him on a busy highway.
The trooper's car was blocking the left lane of Interstate 80 when the trooper appears to be checking on an incident in the highway's median.
Watch: Trooper nearly run down by out-of-control big rig
One Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper is lucky to be alive today. Dash cam video shows an out of control big rig barrel down the breakdown lane where the trooper was standing, forcing him to run for his life.
Dashcam footage shows the trooper looking up just in time, scrambling for traction and out of the path of the incoming truck.
On the left, several other crews also run away from the equipment on the side of the road.
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On the left side of the photo in the center, another trooper is stopped behind a truck that ran off the road on the other side of the highway.
(Wyoming Highway Patrol / FOX Weather)
"Luckily, no law enforcement or first responders lost their lives to this out-of-control vehicle," wrote the WHP on Facebook. "Please remember that emergency personnel wants to be able to make it home safely at the end of their shift."
Slow down and move over for emergency vehicles, they pleaded in the post.