Rock Slide in Green River, WY Causes Accidents

This happened on the afternoon of October 13, 2010 at about 3:30 PM. A second smaller slide occurred at 4 PM. Ubstu-Reports was on the scene. There was a three car accident caused by the blinding dust from the rock fall, and multiple people were injured. Two persons were cited for going too fast. Luckily, nobody was fatally injured. Two passenger vehicles and a semi trailer were involved.
Westbound lanes of Interstate 80 were closed for at least two hours while the slide and scene was cleaned up. A thick layer of dust caked the ground and surroundings of the spill, and minor slides continue to occur as of this video's upload.

The minivan vehicle was carrying an airplane fuselage, and that is the wreckage you see strewn about and on top of the truck.

See also:
http://trib.com/news/updates/article_86122574-d7c4-11df-8eeb-001cc4c03286.html

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[brookecummings]

the white car is my friends. She and her dad were in the care. He had broken ribs, a broken back and a hole in his lung. She broke her ankle. They are doing much better. The white car she had just bought from a friend and they were taking it home when this happened. It was a ford focus.

[Ubstudios]

@brookecummings That sucks but glad everyone is doing better.

[BRAVOADD]

For once a crash that Swift was in, and it wasn't their fault. Or was it?

[101Nikolai]

I remember that day. The dust clouded half the town.

[Noramae12]

That is no t under s cliff its near by the rocks side which has been like that since Lewis and Clark had done crossed the states... Better yet when Powell explored this very valleys river. I use to live here and never did I see any slide happen but with the shift that has happened to the world it was bound to happen... May t he state see that they are going to put up some protection nets to keep people  from getting hurt..

[gazaking765]

Who in the hell builds a highway underneath a cliff? Someone in the state house should be getting sued.

[lnksmiles]

@MrFurmom yea it is

[MrFurmom]

@brookecummings isnt that alex quigglys dad and sister in that white car