Eyewitness: Dump Truck Driver In Deadly Crash On Teton Pass "Driving Way Too Fast"

[mahatmakanejeeves]

I’ve driven on this section of road. I’ve been over where this happened.

Eyewitness: Dump Truck Driver In Deadly Crash On Teton Pass "Driving Way Too Fast"

A Jackson driver who watched Tuesday's deadly Teton Pass crash unfold says he nearly passed the dump truck moments before its brakes failed and crashed into six vehicles, killing two people. "He was driving way too fast,” the eyewitness said.

Kolby Fedore
July 08, 2026
5 min read


Moments after fatal crash on Teton Pass on Tuesday, July 7, 2026 (Photographer: Dumitru Cebotari)

A Jackson airport taxi owner had just dropped off passengers in Victor, Idaho, and was heading home over Teton Pass when traffic slowed behind a dump truck hauling asphalt Tuesday. … Motorcycles slipped around it. A camper pulled to the shoulder near the 8,431-foot summit to let vehicles by. A few pickups followed. … Dumitru Cebotari was next. Instead, he hesitated.

Moments later, he watched a deadly highway crash unfold just seconds in front of him. … "I feel like I had an angel protecting me," Cebotari told Cowboy State Daily. "One second changed everything."

Just before 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, the Kenworth dump truck lost its brakes while descending WY 22 on the east side of Teton Pass near milepost 6.8, wrote the Wyoming Highway Patrol. … The truck struck six vehicles before flipping onto its side.

Two people — 66-year-old Nicholas Besobrasow of Tetonia, Idaho, and 57-year-old David Page of Mammoth Lakes, California — were killed. Four others were injured. … Besobrasow founded Alupka Asset Management in Driggs, Idaho. Page was executive director of the Winter Wildlands Alliance based in Boise, Idaho.

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[Attilatheblond]

1. If you ever travel down a western mountain highway, and wonder about those lanes off to the side going up a bit are

off the main road, THIS is why they exist. Sadly, not every downhill highway has them. 'Run Away' roads are real and save lives. Got to see one get used by a massive truck coming down an interstate grade. It was a terrifying sight hoping that truck got over to the run away exit in time on that busy interstate pass thru several driving lanes of traffic.

People need to understand that physics won't argue with you on a downhill grade. Alas, some drivers just don't understand that inertia is a real thing.

[hlthe2b]

3. They are in heavy use on most western interstates--I-70 just west of Denver especially...

and boy, am I grateful they are there as I've witnessed some scary near-disasters.

[sop]

2. I've driven that road, it has some of the steepest grades I've ever seen.