An 18-year-old driver was killed late Saturday after her car struck a loose bull north of Sheridan, according to the Wyoming Highway Patrol.
The crash happened around 10:46 p.m. on Sept. 6 near mile marker 3 on WYO 338. Troopers say a Black Angus bull had gotten out, and a patrol officer was trying to move it back into a fenced area when the animal entered the roadway, crossed the center line, and moved into the southbound lane.
Laylie Laumbach, driving a southbound Honda Accord, apparently didn’t see the bull in time and collided with it. The impact sent the car off the right side of the road, through a right-of-way fence, and into a tree in a river-bottom, where it came to an uncontrolled stop.
Laumbach was wearing a seat belt, but she didn’t survive the crash.
Highway Patrol lists Laumbach as the 82nd highway fatality in Wyoming this year. The incident remains under investigation.
The original story by Joy Greenwald for KGAB AM 650.
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