As many as seven bus passengers received minor to moderate injuries late Wednesday when the driver rolled the bus while swerving to miss a dead bull elk lying on Interstate-70, officials said today.
The elk had been struck five minutes earlier by a Dodge pickup truck, said Gilbert Mares, Colorado State Patrol spokesman.
The International 2005 bus owned by Sunset Luxury Limousine was westbound on I-70 about two miles west of Genesee when the driver saw the bull elk in the road.
He swerved the bus onto the right shoulder of the highway to miss the elk, hit the embankment and the bus rolled over on its left side, Mares said.
The injured passengers were taken by ambulance to Saint Anthony’s Central Hospital in Denver, he said. None of them received life-threatening injuries.
The driver, who was not injured, will likely not be cited, Mares said.
