Wyoming Snowmobiler Dead After T-Boning SUV

Wyoming Snowmobiler Dead After T-Boning SUV

Dirk N Jamie Hillyard via Facebook

A Wyoming snowmobiler is dead after T-boning an SUV in Star Valley Ranch, the Highway Patrol says.

The crash happened around 4:10 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 21, at the intersection of Alpine Way and Vista Drive.

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According to a fatality crash summary, 56-year-old Anthony Driskill was riding north on Alpine Way when he hit the driver's side of a GMC Yukon that was headed west on Vista Drive.

Driskill was wearing a helmet but died from his injuries.

The driver of the SUV was not injured in the crash.

The summary says it was snowing and the roads were covered in ice and snow at the time.

Speed is listed as a possible contributing factor.

Driskill is the second snowmobiler to die on Wyoming's roads this year.

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Dirk N Jamie Hillyard via Facebook
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"We will miss you," Driskill's good friends Dirk and Jamie Hillyard posted on Facebook last Friday. "Ride in Paradise, until we meet again!"

2022's Deadliest Wyoming County by Traffic Deaths

While car crashes can occur anywhere, some roads in Wyoming are more dangerous than others.

According to Wyoming Highway Patrol data, there were 117 fatal crashes in the Cowboy State in 2022 resulting in 133 deaths.

Of those fatal crashes, the majority (13.68%) occurred in Laramie County -- two in January, one in February, one in March, two in April, one in June, two in July, three in August, two in September, one in November, and one in December.

Sweetwater County saw the second most fatal crashes last year, 12, while Fremont and Lincoln counties each saw 10.

Albany and Park counties each recorded eight, and Campbell, Converse, and Natrona counties each tallied seven.

The deadliest 2022 crash in Laramie County took place on June 17 when two semis collided on Interstate 80 east of Cheyenne and immediately became engulfed in flames killing both drivers and a passenger.



Laramie County also saw two fatal crashes involving motorcyclists, two fatal crashes involving juveniles, and a fatal crash involving a pedestrian last year.

Below is the Wyoming Highway Patrol narrative of every fatal crash that occurred in Laramie County in 2022.
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