Wyoming Highway Patrol News

Wyoming Denies Targeting Out of State Drivers for Speeding

The Wyoming Highway Patrol hands out nearly twice as many speeding tickets to out-of-state drivers as it does to in-state motorists, but the administrator of the patrol says the agency doesn’t target drivers from outside Wyoming. An analysis by the …

Wyoming Highway Patrol Gets New In-Car Computer Program

Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers can now run nationwide driver’s license checks, check vehicle registrations and issue citations right from their in-car computer. Troopers have had in-car touchscreen computers in their patrol vehicles for a while, but the new system extends …

Wyoming Traffic Fatalities Decrease in 2013

The Wyoming Highway Patrol says traffic fatalities in the state have decreased this year. Sgt. Steve Townsend tells KGWN-TV that 120 people died in traffic accidents in Wyoming last year. There have been only 67 traffic deaths as of Sept. …

Wyoming and Utah Troopers Push Child Safety

State troopers from both the Wyoming Highway Patrol and the Utah Highway Patrol recently worked together to check children’s safety seats and replaced some of them. Troopers from both states worked together with the Safe Kids Uinta County group recently …