On Feb.17, units responded to a reported overturned semi tractor/trailer with one person trapped and fuel leaking at the WB126 and Wells Rd interchange. The first unit on scene arrived to find one adult male trapped in the wreckage of a semi tractor overturned onto the guard rail along the freeway on-ramp curve, fuel tanks intact. An extensive and complex extrication of the victim took approximately 45 minutes to complete, after which he was transported to a local hospital with major injuries where he later died from his injuries. He was identified as Taylor Wright.
