LARAMIE, Wyo.-
A Colorado woman was killed and a Texas woman injured after a heavy headboard blew out of the bed of a pickup truck and crashed into the windshield of a Suburban.
The driver of the pickup truck was cited for driving with an unsecured load, according to the Wyoming Highway Patrol.
The accident happened Monday afternoon on Wyoming 230 about 10 miles south of Laramie.
The 250-pound headboard blew out of the bed of the 2004 Chevrolet pickup driven by Brian Soukup, 56, of Livermore, Colo. The headboard crashed into the windshield of a 1999 Chevrolet Suburban heading the opposite direction.
The Suburban went off the road, struck a culvert and rolled over. The crash killed the driver of the Suburban, Lois A. Dewey, 54, of Loveland, Colo.
A passenger in the Suburban, Helen Reikosski, 57, of Denton, Texas, was taken to Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie but no longer was in that hospital on Tuesday; hospital officials said they weren’t sure whether she was discharged or transferred to another hospital.
The headboard also struck a 2005 Toyota van carrying four people. The van was able to stop without crashing, and no one inside was hurt.
Soukup also stopped without crashing and wasn’t hurt.
