JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — A Missouri man is dead after a being in volved in a single-vehicle crash south of Pinedale over the weekend.
On July 9, a fatal crash occurred at milepost 66.90 on US 191 south of Pinedale, Wyoming. Around 8:05pm, Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers were notified of a crashed vehicle.
A 2014 Dodge Challenger was headed south on US 191 when the vehicle drifted across the center line and exited the east side of the road. The car collided with a delineator post and adjacent ditch before overturning multiple times.
The driver of the Dodge has been identified as 45-year-old Independence, Missouri, resident Jason R. Blair. Blair was wearing a seatbelt and succumbed to his injuries at the crash scene.
Driver fatigue is being investigated as a possible contributing factor.
This is the 51st fatality on Wyoming’s roadways in 2022 compared to 49 in 2021, 47 in 2020, and 85 in 2019 to date.
