A good reason to buckle up

Moorcroft High School students who park on the south parking lot this week are being met with a extraordinarily battered Wyoming Highway Patrol vehicle recovered from a head-on collision in September of 2016.

Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper David Motsick was driving this car in the Sheridan area on the evening of September 22, 2016. He responded to a call regarding a car that was tailgating semi trucks on the east bound lanes of Interstate 90 near milepost 33, east of town.

When he arrived at the location, Motsick was unable to locate the vehicle in question. As he drove on toward Buffalo,...