Monday, February 18th, at approximately 5:35 p.m., the Nevada Highway Patrol responded to a crash on I-80 eastbound 17 miles east of Battle Mountain.
Preliminary investigation indicates Mr. Eniel Batista-Carballo, age 28, from Las Vegas, NV, was driving a commercial motor vehicle (tractor trailer combination) and began to merge onto I-80 from the right shoulder. Another commercial motor vehicle (tractor trailer combo) driven by Mr. Brent Bingham, age 42, from Hyde Park, UT, was driving in the slow lane approaching the merging truck.
The front of Mr. Bingham’s truck hit the rear trailer (full impact) of the merging truck. Both commercial vehicles came to rest on their wheels in the eastbound travel lanes blocking I-80 for approximately 3 hours.
Mr. Bingham sustained critical injuries in the crash and was transported to a hospital in Salt Lake City, UT. MrBatishth-Carballo was transported to the Battle Mountain hospital and was later released.