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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