Watch: Truck crushes police car due to strong winds!

The Wyoming Highway Patrol hopes a dramatic video (below) of a semi-trailer tipping over and smashing a patrol car will remind drivers to heed heavy wind warnings.The video was captured Tuesday near Elk Mountain, Wyoming, as three troopers responded to assist drivers who were involved in other crashes along I-80.Those three troopers were outside of their vehicles and not injured when heavy winds caused a semi-trailer to fall on its right side and crush a patrol car parked in the emergency lane. The semi-trailer’s two occupants also escaped without injury.

• A camera in another patrol car caught the crash

AP

Dramatic video of a tractor-trailer blowing over onto a Wyoming Highway Patrol car shows just how crazy windy it can get out on the high plains.

Gusts up to 90 mph were recorded around the time the truck toppled Tuesday while headed down Interstate 80 in southern Wyoming.

A camera in another patrol car caught the crash: Wind nudges over the trailer, then the rig. The trailer falls onto a parked patrol car. The skidding truck barely misses the car filming.

Patrol Lt. David Wagener says the truck driver and a passenger weren't hurt. Troopers on the scene were away from the crash zone, helping other motorists.

He says the highway was closed to lightweight, high-profile vehicles because of the wind and the driver was cited.