GEORGETOWN, COLORADO — A semi-truck lost control and set off a chain-reaction crash involving 10 vehicles on eastbound Interstate 70 at Georgetown on Thursday, November 12, injuring two Clear Creek County sheriff’s deputies and several others. The eastbound lanes were closed for more than six hours.
The Colorado State Patrol said the crash happened about 11:25 a.m. at mile marker 228. All the vehicles were traveling east. Several, including an International semi, a Toyota Tacoma, a Subaru Impreza, a Range Rover, a second Tacoma, a Mack truck, and a Chevrolet Silverado, were slowing or stopped for traffic trying to take Exit 228 to Georgetown. Two Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office Chevrolet Tahoes were moving through traffic with lights and sirens on when a Freightliner Cascadia lost control and hit the rear of one Tahoe.
The Freightliner kept going east and hit a Tacoma, the Range Rover, the Silverado, and the second Tahoe. After the first impact, the first Tahoe lost control and struck the International semi and the Impreza. The Range Rover hit the Mack box truck, and debris from the Freightliner and first Tahoe collision hit the driver’s side of the second Tacoma. A semi fire in the area was unrelated.
Those Involved
- Freightliner driver (35, Fresno, CA): not hurt
- First Tahoe (43-year-old female deputy, Littleton): serious injuries, taken to a hospital by ground
- Second Tahoe (36-year-old male deputy, Denver): moderate injuries, taken to a hospital
- First Tacoma (driver and passenger, both 69, Highlands Ranch): moderate injuries, taken to a hospital by ground
- Range Rover (driver 50, Pacific, CA; passenger 39, Las Vegas): serious injuries, driver flown out
- Impreza (32-year-old woman, Pueblo): minor injuries, not transported
- International (driver 53, Elon, NC; passenger 52, Jameson, NC), second Tacoma (40, Colorado Springs), Mack (64, Aurora), and Silverado (driver 43 and passenger 49, Highlands Ranch): no injuries
Eastbound lanes reopened about 6 p.m. The State Patrol Vehicular Crimes Unit is leading the investigation, and no cause has been determined.
Information courtesy of CBS Colorado and the Colorado State Patrol.
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