Video: The Astonishing Moment A Truck Turned Over By 70mph Wind Crushed A Police Car In Wyoming US

This is the moment a truck driver traveling westbound on I-80 near Elk Mountain tumbled onto a parked police car after ignoring severe weather warnings against commercial vehicles plying the route. A gust of wind suddenly blows the truck over on top of a highway patrol car, which was parked on the side of interstate responding to another crash.

“Our troopers were already in the same area working on two other semi trucks that had blown off the interstate,” Wyoming Highway Patrol Lt. Kelly Finn tells EastIdahoNews.com. “Fortunately nobody was in the police car or it would have been a lot worse.”

Finn says wind gusts were nearly 70 mph around 3 p.m. Tuesday when the crash occurred. A high wind advisory was in effect prohibiting commercial vehicles on I-80 between Rawlings and Laramie.

“We’re seeing less and less compliance from these trucking companies when these wind advisories are out,” Finn says. “They’re in a hurry and taking chances and it’s dangerous.”