Highway 230

Though the circumstances of the initial collision were unclear Tuesday, Beck said the hay caught fire after the crash.

The hot, dry and windy weather has whipped up more smoke from the Badger Creek Fire and forced a closure of Wyoming Highway 230 again.

The commercial truck was traveling at a speed too fast for the steep grade of the roadway, and too fast for a vehicle that size. The rig reportedly weighed 140,000 pounds.

A man is dead following a head-on collision 15 miles west of Laramie Sunday afternoon. Wyoming Highway Patrol Lt. Mike Simmons says the victim was driving his pickup west on Highway 230 around 3:00 p.m., when he failed to negotiate a curve in the road and collided with an oncoming semi...