Fatal crash near Yellowstone emphasizes risks on picturesque routes – nationally

The death of at least six foreign nationals in a fiery van crash in East -idaho reminds that visitors who are at Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks from all over the world travel on picturesque side streets that can be as dangerous as the region's grizzly bears and the boiling hot pools.

The van collided on Thursday with a pickup truck on a motorway west of Yellowstone. Both vehicles caught fire and the survivors were brought to hospitals with injuries to hospitals. The tourists killed came from Italy and China, said officials.

The Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco said eight Chinese citizens were injured in the crash. After an accident by a bus from Las Vegas in 2019, the accident took place with Chinese tourists who rolled over near the Bryce National Park of Southern Utah, killed four people and injured more dozens.

Where the van came from in the accident on Thursday and went unknown. Some Yellowstone streets, including the most famous geyser of the park – were still closed after the snow -covered winter.

The highway, on which the accident south of West Yellowstone, Montana, took place, offers a way to get between Yellowstone and Grand Teton at this time of year before a north-south route is plowed and the park is completely open for summer.

According to the latest data from the international trade administration, 36 percent of international visitors who came to the USA listened to the USA

Seventeen percent of Yellowstone visitors came from other countries in 2016, according to a study on the use of park visitors with the latest comprehensive data.

Visitors from Europe and Asia made up the majority of travelers outside the United States, 34 percent from China, 11 percent from Italy and 10 percent Rome Canada.

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed these numbers significantly, said Brian Riley, whose business based in Wyoming, old manual listen, markets the Yellowstone region in China.

“Every Chinese taught how great Yellowstone is in his primary school,” said Riley on Friday.

The pandemic brought a sharp brake to all kinds of tourism, especially from China, which has not yet recovered, Riley found. Now visits to people who already live in US life are making Chinese visits to most of the U.S., he said.

“Foreigners in general, they don't feel safe here as before,” said Riley on Friday. “The Chinese preach that behind the scenes.”

The US tourism industry expected that 2025 will be another good year for foreign visitors. But a few months later, international arrivals have dropped. Annoyed by the tariffs and the rhetoric of President Donald Trump and alarmed by reports on tourists who are arrested on the border, some citizens of other countries remain far from the United States and choose to travel elsewhere.

Riley, who grew up in Jackson, Wyoming, south of Grand Teton and lived in China to learn Mandarin, and why Chinese wanted to visit the United States, rather focuses on getting her to visit Hawaii, a state that is perceived as less dangerous.

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According to Riley and West Yellowstone Mayor Jeff McBirnie, their climax in summer culminated in summer.

Many foreign visitors are parents of international students at US universities and universities.

“They say:” Hey, let our child exhaust and go on vacation for a week. “Or let's do it through the kid's, let them through the college and go on vacation,” said McBirnie, who has a pizza place in the city. “You really have a great economic impact on this city.”

Yellowstone had to suffer a two-two stroke between the pandemic and devastating floods in 2022, which canceled access to parts of the park for months.

Tourism recovered last year with 4.7 million visitors, Yellowstone, the second largest.

Wrapping roads and natural distractions help you to recharge your batteries in and around the park.

The first death with a passenger vehicle in Yellowstone came just a few years after the completely motorized park and a fleet of buses replaced the stage coaches and horses that were used for transport in the early years of the park.

In 1921 a 10-passenger bus drove the street in the fishing bridge of the park and in a embankment and killed a 38-year-old woman in Texas when her neck was interrupted, said parking historian Lee Whittlesey.

Whittlesey in his book “Deaths in Yellowstone”. Chronic deaths in any case- by drowning in hot springs to raids, aircraft accidents and murders. Automatic deaths, Whittlesey wrote, are in the park “Legion”, to the point at which he had the feeling that they were too usual to include his deaths.

A further accounting of deaths in Yellowstone states that at least 17 people in the park have died in motor vehicles since 2007, which rated the second most common cause of death for medical problems.

Whittlesey presented the chapter of his book about Road's deaths with a quote that is attributed to the Sootayer Mother Shipton of the 15th century: “Dare without horses will go, and accidents fill the world with hurt.”

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