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Johnson County truck crash kills 2
Posted 9/6/12
BUFFALO — Two people are dead after a heavily loaded semi-trailer lost its brakes on a steep slope on the eastern flanks of the Bighorn Mountains.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol identifies the victims as driver 60-year-old Robert D. Moffitt and passenger 58-year-old Margaret S. Moffitt, both of Leesburg, Fla.
Robert Moffitt was driving the semi-trailer loaded with sacks of bentonite early Tuesday evening when it lost its brakes coming down Powder River Pass.
The Highway Patrol report states that the semi-trailer was in too high a gear for the steep grade. The patrol states it’s unknown why Moffitt didn’t steer onto one of the runaway truck ramps on the slope.
The rig smashed through a guardrail and dropped 150 feet into Mosier Gulch, about 4 miles west of the town of Buffalo.