Vehicle-elk crash blocks US-89 near county line; Jackson hit-and-run report ends in citation

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• Fleet vehicle hits elk on US-89 near the Lincoln County line; highway blocked, multi-agency response. At 17:43 dispatch (TG 1801) broadcast a non-injury collision on US-89 at mile marker 132 — a fleet vehicle versus an elk, with both the vehicle and the injured elk blocking the roadway; at 17:44 an update advised a passerby had dispatched the elk. WHP responded from the Pinedale area, a Lincoln County unit (Afton 12-11, TG 1404) held traffic from the other side, and Teton units 2262 and 2273 handled traffic control; a later reference put the scene near "the 134," so the exact milepost is uncertain. A tow (reported as Teton Towing) was en route by 18:42, the vehicle was released to a validly licensed driver around 19:45, and the scene appears to have cleared by about 22:00.

• Hit-and-run reported at the Staples parking lot; cited within two hours. At 16:07 a unit was sent to the Staples lot for a hit-and-run collision, RP in a white Hyundai, suspect vehicle unknown. The responding unit (751) worked registered-owner checks, was reassigned at 17:40 to an address on a road transcribed as "King Nighter Road" [suspect], and at 18:10 cleared with a citation for hit and run.

• Masked man with "Friday the 13th" sign at Snow King turns out to be harmless. At 15:23 units were sent to South Glenwood and Snow King Ave for suspicious circumstances — a masked male walking the road; at 15:26 a second RP said he was holding a sign reading "Friday the 13th, I'm coming for you." By 15:38 units determined the subject was celebrating Friday the 13th; his mother was notified and all units cleared.

• Second collision, non-injury, at Whole Foods. Reported at 18:29 on TG 1801. At 18:52 the handling unit advised no damage could be determined on either vehicle, it was unclear whether they even made contact, information was exchanged, and the call was cleared.

• School-bus mechanical issues, all resolved. A bus lost all turn signals around 15:12 and swapped to a spare at a town park [suspect: transcribed "Fillbox Park," likely Phil Baux Park]; another bus reported an engine diagnostic light at 16:06 and was cleared to continue; at 21:20 a START bus in Teton Village reported a fuel gauge reading empty, fixed by cycling the ignition.

Also on the air

A steady evening of traffic enforcement: roughly 28 plate checks and 18 records checks, concentrated on South US-89 (Fall Creek, South Park Loop, the transfer station, High School Rd), WY-22 (Coal Creek, the scale house) and Broadway, with at least four stops clearing on verbal warnings and one citation. Routine school/transit chatter dominated TG 1812 (student transfers and pickups, a lost jacket, roster corrections — student details omitted). Other items: a fraud-case phone follow-up assigned at 15:20, an assist for an elderly repeat caller at 17:20, two animal calls (one UTL, one at the south end of Henry's Road), a garbled single-exchange "clear to/of assault" at 14:28 [suspect], and a string of WHP statewide reckless-driver broadcasts from I-80 and Fremont County — none of them local.

By the numbers

• 989 transmissions across 248 exchanges (92 short status-only exchanges omitted from the detailed log).
• Busiest talkgroup: TG 1801 Teton County law dispatch, 693 transmissions; TG 1812 (unidentified, apparently school-bus ops) second at 151.
• Busiest hour: 15:00–16:00 with 205 transmissions.
• Categories: status 93, unclassified 67, plate-check 28, records-check 18, transit 14, medical 9, traffic-complaint 6, crash 6, traffic-stop 4, animal 2, domestic 1.

Caveats

• Coverage gap: no traffic was logged before 14:24 or after ~22:30, so this brief covers only the afternoon/evening; the overnight and morning hours are absent.
• Out-of-county traffic mixed in: all TG 13751 medical pages are Fremont County (Lander/Riverton) EMS, and TG 109/TG 113 broadcasts (I-80, US-287, Highway 135) are statewide or Fremont/Sweetwater County — none are Teton County incidents. The 19:06 reckless Sprinter van on US-26 was headed into Alpine (Lincoln County).
• Transcription quality is poor: unit numbers drift within exchanges, road names are mangled ("King Nighter Road," "Fillbox Park," "Ross Knob/Plateau"), and the elk-crash milepost was given variously as 132 and ~134. The 14:28 "domestic" entry is a single garbled line and may be a unit clearing an earlier call.