Georgetown – A ski shuttle carrying passengers to Denver International Airport ran into a parked snowplow on a closed stretch of Interstate 70 Sunday morning, injuring nine people.
The highway had closed around 3:30 a.m. while crews cleaned up a gasoline spill, and the snowplow was parked in the area to divert traffic off the highway, Colorado State Patrol Trooper Ryan Boone told KUSA-TV in Denver.
Boone said all the other traffic was getting off the highway, but the Colorado Mountain Express shuttle kept going and hit the snowplow at about 60 mph around 8 a.m.
Although the shuttle driver was not hurt, his eight passengers were. Two were airlifted to local hospitals. The snowplow driver also was hurt.
Details of the victims’ injuries were not immediately known.
Jay Ufer, CEO of the shuttle company, declined to identify the shuttle driver or say how long the driver had worked for the company. “Appropriate personnel action will be taken,” he said. He did not elaborate.
