Georgetown – A ski shuttle carrying passengers to Denver International Airport ran into a parked snowplow on a closed stretch of Interstate 70 on Sunday morning, injuring nine people.
The highway had closed about 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, the State Patrol said.
Officials said all the other traffic was getting off the highway, but the Colorado Mountain Express shuttle kept going and hit the snowplow while going 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, chief executive 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.
About four hours after the plow accident, a seven-vehicle crash closed eastbound I-70 again. The State Patrol said there were no injuries from that crash.
