Green River tunnel crash

[micropolitan guy]

Did I miss a thread on the tunnel crash in Green River, Wyo., on Monday? Three died when 26 semis and cars crashed in the Westbound tunnel on I-80 in Green River. What a horrible way to go.

Been through this tunnel numerous times, there's a slight right turn just before it but it's a straight shot through the tunnel, which is 1/4-mile long.

Of the 26 vehicles, 16 were semis. The amount of truck traffic on I-80 is staggering.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I didn't even hear about it.

 

[MileHigh]

I saw it in passing. Been on that stretch of I-80 a few times.

 

[dixiehack]

In The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson talks about how the vastness of America swallows up news about disasters that would be the talk of a European country for days.

 

[Chef2]

I saw it in passing. Been on that stretch of I-80 a few times.

Compare it to the Eisenhower.

 

[MileHigh]

Compare it to the Eisenhower.

Ike/Johnson is more than 1.6 miles long. Green River is 1,200 feet. No hazmat trucks allowed through Ike/Johnson unless they can't go over Loveland Pass. If so, hazmat trucks are escorted through with no other traffic.

 

[Chef2]

Ike/Johnson is more than 1.6 miles long. Green River is 1,200 feet. No hazmat trucks allowed through Ike/Johnson unless they can't go over Loveland Pass. If so, hazmat trucks are escorted through with no other traffic.

See…..when we went out to Keystone last year, we inadvertently took Loveland Pass. I can promise you one thing. I would drive for 17 hours through every other county in Colorado backwards to get to Keystone as long as I avoided Loveland Pass.
Lord help me.
I still think about that.
Highway-6 inches of gravel-end of the world

 

[MileHigh]

See…..when we went out to Keystone last year, we inadvertently took Loveland Pass. I can promise you one thing. I would drive for 17 hours through every other county in Colorado backwards to get to Keystone as long as I avoided Loveland Pass.
Lord help me.
I still think about that.
Highway-6 inches of gravel-end of the world

Red Mountain Pass in the winter scoffs at Loveland Pass.

If it's snowing/icy, for sure need to stay on I-70 to Silverthorne then go up to Keystone. Great golf in the summer at Keystone.

 

[ChrisLong]

A friend lives in Buffalo and I think he is some sort of volunteer EMT. He posted on FB about being called to help out with this.

 

[Roscablo]

Ike/Johnson is more than 1.6 miles long. Green River is 1,200 feet. No hazmat trucks allowed through Ike/Johnson unless they can't go over Loveland Pass. If so, hazmat trucks are escorted through with no other traffic.

The reason there are so many trucks on I-80 is it is an easier trek than I-70. Especially flatter. The wind and weather isn't necessarily better.

 

[MileHigh]

The reason there are so many trucks on I-80 is it is an easier trek than I-70. Especially flatter. The wind and weather isn't necessarily better.

Oh, for sure. Not only do you have to navigate the big construction zone on Floyd Hill, you have the tunnels, Vail Pass and Glenwood Canyon on I-70. It's a gorgeous drive, but for effectiveness, I-80 is the way to go for trucks.

 

[kickoff-time]

Weather did not play a factor in this crash. Good friend of mine had his niece involved in the crash and she was airlifted to Salt Lake City. Doing OK though. He said it looked like a war zone. He has been in war so I trust him.