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Deputies close highway at Wilson to drone and reconstruct overnight crash scene; night ends in wrong-way driver reports

Highway shut at Wilson for crash reconstruction.

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  • Highway shut at Wilson for crash reconstruction. At 06:32 units on TG 1801 advised they would close the highway in Wilson (the pass road, per school-bus traffic on TG 1812) around 07:00 to fly a drone and reconstruct "the scene from last night," with Wyoming Highway Patrol assisting. Intermittent closures at the Stagecoach ran until about 08:09; a school bus was held roughly 10 minutes at 07:54. The nature of the overnight incident was never stated on air.
  • Wrong-way driver reports close the day — open at midnight. From 23:55, dispatch relayed multiple 911 calls about a car on the wrong side of the highway near South 89/Big Trail, then in the middle of South Park Loop Road, with callers reporting speeds near 100 mph. Units 2274/2235 were en route and told to look for a white Subaru (partial plate given); status unresolved when the log ends at 23:59.
  • Bear activity in town. At 13:26 a bear cub was reported hiding under a parked pickup at the event center; by 14:13 Game & Fish had been on scene ~30 minutes, setting a trap with a partial roadblock up. Earlier, at 06:19, an officer on a Snow King Drive barking-dog call noted knocked-over trash cans, possibly a bear.
  • Two Teton Village gondola medicals. At 13:54 first responders and a medic were paged for a man in his 30s down near the gondolas (possible seizure); he was conscious and transported to St. John's, arriving 14:34. At 21:05 Medic 60 and Teton Village Fire responded for an 85-year-old woman who fell at the top of the gondola with a head laceration; ski patrol brought her down and Medic 60 transported to St. John's at 21:31.
  • Rescue 22 helicopter flew twice. Off the hangar at 07:00 for Teton Village (four aboard, ~1-hour mission) and again at 19:50 for Granite (two aboard), back at the hangar by 20:22. No patient details given on air.
  • Hit-and-run collision. At 20:56 an officer was sent to a reported hit-and-run collision on Moose Street [suspect — road name low-confidence]; no outcome broadcast.

Also on the air

A busy but routine day: roughly 46 plate checks and records checks, plus 20 traffic complaints (most on TG 109/113 statewide, including an erratic Jeep Wagoneer towing a trailer northbound US-89 relayed both locally and by WHP around 16:30). Parking enforcement dominated the morning — five vehicles cleared from a new no-parking zone at Broadway and No Name (one owner later came in upset about a tow), plus complaints about a tour bus, a trailer near the middle school, and an Astrovan. A 04:09 welfare check on a woman sleeping in the parking garage resolved without incident; a transient male at a West Broadway coffee shop (first reported as the brewery, corrected on air) was contacted but not trespassed. Also: a dog-bite report taken at the SO lobby, a cold fraud report, two civil standbys and a DV-verbal on Gregory Lane cleared unfounded, a Whole Foods noise complaint about a bass-heavy Tesla that generated a second call at 21:52, moose and buffalo jams slowing traffic near Gros Ventre Junction and in the park, and heavy school-bus dispatch traffic sorting out student drop-offs — including kids reporting smoke on a bus that turned out to be the smell of a nearby coffee roaster.

By the numbers

  • 1,826 transmissions across 523 exchanges (225 short status-only exchanges omitted).
  • Busiest talkgroup: TG 1801 Teton County law dispatch (1,017 transmissions); busiest hour: 15:00–16:00 (222).
  • Categories: status 199, unclassified 155, medical 46, plate-check 24, records-check 22, transit 22, traffic-complaint 20, animal 12, noise-parking 7, crash 7, fire 3, traffic-stop 2, suspicious 2, welfare 1, hazard 1.

Caveats

  • TG 13751 (58 transmissions) is Fremont County EMS paging (Lander/Riverton/Dubois) — its medicals, crashes and fire pages are not Teton County and are excluded from the log. TG 109/113/6386 carry statewide WHP and mutual-aid traffic (I-80, Rock Springs, Lyman, Cokeville); only Jackson-area items are logged.
  • Whisper transcription is rough today: unit numbers, road names and plates are frequently garbled. The Wilson closure's underlying incident, the "Moose Street" hit-and-run location, and several unit IDs are low-confidence.
  • TG 1812 (293 transmissions) and TG 1814 are unlabeled; context suggests 1812 is school-bus dispatch and 1814 a SAR helicopter channel.