FORT LARAMIE – A man has died due to a vehicle rolling over east of Fort Laramie on Jan. 18 at 8:46 a.m. off of Highway 26, near milepost 29.5. Emergency responders from Lingle, Fort Laramie and Torrington responded to the scene.  

According to the Wyoming Highway Patrol (WHP), Maurice E. Jepson, 84, died after succumbing to injuries sustained from a rollover of his 2020 Kubota RTV-XG850 utility-type vehicle (UTV).

Jepson was a resident of Fort Laramie and was driving westbound on the service road adjacent to the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) railroad track when his UTV collided with the gravel and overturned.

Jepson was moving cattle along the service road when he failed to notice the mound of gravel on the roadway. He was not wearing a seatbelt.

According to the release from WHP, “Driver inattention is being investigated as a possible contributing factor. This is the fifth fatality on Wyoming’s roadways in 2023, compared to one in 2022, eight in 2021 and two in 2020.”