Patrol Trooper Injured

A Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper stationed in Laramie was injured in a single vehicle rollover early Saturday morning.

Wyoming Highway patrol Sgt. Stephen Townsend says the Trooper was injured and remained in the patrol vehicle during the rollover maneuver due to properly wearing the vehicles seat belt and shoulder harness. Townsend says the crash occurred on I-80 approximately 7 miles east of Laramie in a section known locally as Telephone Canyon.

The Trooper, who was westbound and negotiating a downhill left hand curve in the roadway, was attempting to catch up to a vehicle when a patch of black ice was encountered on the roadway.  The black ice caused the Trooper to lose control of the vehicle as it went off the roadway into the median and struck the cement divider.  After impacting the cement divider the vehicle then rolled one complete time coming to rest in the roadway.

The Trooper had to be extricated from the vehicle by Laramie Fire Department personnel and was alert when transported by ground ambulance to Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie.