I-70 In The High Country Back Open Following Night Full Of Crashes
GENESEE, Colo. (CBS4) - The entire stretch of the Interstate 70 west of Denver is back open following an eventful night of accidents.
Bad conditions caused crashes which shut down the mountain highway overnight. The first happened near the Chief Hosa Lodge in Genesee. That crash was cleaned up a little after midnight.
The Colorado State Patrol said none of the other various accidents were very serious.
A trooper was involved in a crash near mile marker 250. He wasn't in the car at the time of the crash. The driver of the other car was injured.
Witnesses say nearly everyone on the highway was sliding on the ice.
"We noticed a car kind of broadsiding traffic that was sliding in front of us, and we were trying to thread the needle between the people in the shoulder and the people in the middle, and we were able to," witness Hamilton Blair said. "And then a car came up on our shoulder to the left, and tried to pass, and t-boned the car that was broadsiding traffic."
I-70 is open throughout the mountains Sunday morning, but troopers continue to urge caution.
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