     The 5 young women killed January 22 when their pickup caught fire in a head-on collision near Rawlins have been identified as current or recent students of a high school in Arkansas who were returning from visiting Jackson Hole Bible College.
The 5, all between 18 and 23, included 2 students and 3 graduates of Sylvan Hills High School in a suburb of Little Rock. All died at the scene.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol says the accident occurred when a westbound commercial truck on Interstate 80 went into the median and then the eastbound lanes trying to avoid a wrong-way driver who’d already hit a car and another truck.
57-year old Arther Nelson was arrested as the wrong-way driver and is being held without bail on a charge of driving impaired with charges involving the deaths pending.
Nelson, whose hometown has not been released, was described by Wyoming authorities as being on methamphetamine and driving with a suspended license.
The Highway Patrol said Monday that other individuals from the other vehicles had been hospitalized in critical condition, but no names or updates have been released.