A Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper was hurt Tuesday when a semi crashed into a patrol vehicle on Interstate 80 near Rawlins.

The Wyoming Highway Patrol (WHP) reports the trooper was leaving the scene of a prior crash at mile marker 201 west of Rawlins at 11:38 a.m. and attempted to turn into the median from the right shoulder.

The semitrailer, traveling westbound, struck the left side of the trooper’s vehicle while it was in the left-hand lane.

The trooper was taken to Memorial Hospital of Carbon County in Rawlins with minor injuries and was released later that day. The truck driver was not hurt and was not ticketed.

When the WHP shared details of the incident, the agency reminded Wyoming drivers that they must yield to emergency vehicles at the scene of an incident.

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