Akron – Three people died in a head-on crash Sunday afternoon about 2 miles east of Akron, in northeastern Colorado.
The collision had closed U.S. 34 in both directions Sunday night.
State Patrol spokesman Gilbert Mares said the accident occurred about 5 p.m. when a Chevrolet Silverado pickup heading west on U.S. 34 drifted into the oncoming lane. The pickup collided head-on with a Dodge Stratus, sending the sedan backward down an embankment.
Mares said the driver of the pickup and the two people in the sedan were dead at the scene.
Investigators don’t know what caused the pickup to drift into oncoming traffic, Mares said.
“We don’t have any contributing factors at this time,” he said.
Elsewhere, a fatal accident closed westbound lanes of Interstate 76 for a time Sunday evening. That accident happened about 5 miles west of Wiggins. Mares said the crash was a single-vehicle rollover.
Additional local news briefs:
DENVER
Knife attack in home injures 14-year-old
A 14-year-old youth suffered minor injuries when he was slashed with a knife shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday, Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson said Sunday.
Jackson said the incident was first reported as a domestic dispute and then as a home invasion, but investigators have determined it was neither.
“It is being investigated as an assault by the Denver assault bureau,” Jackson said.
The youth was injured at a home in the 200 block of Sheridan Boulevard.
Police are looking for one person, described as a male wearing a black jersey with the number 69 on it, the spokesman said.
Investigators also are looking for a light-colored vehicle. The plates on the vehicle had been covered.
FRUITA
Semi crash injures boy, closes I-70 east
Two tractor-trailers were severely damaged about 3:15 a.m. Sunday 3 miles east of Fruita on eastbound Interstate 70, Colorado State Patrol Trooper Jim Womack said.
Womack said the eastbound lanes were closed for more than eight hours.
Wreckage was below an overpass but caused no structural damage, and only one person – a 12-year-old boy – was slightly injured, Womack said.
One truck driver was cited by Womack after losing control of the rig, which veered left into the median and then right into the guardrail. The second truck, in which the boy was riding, then hit the first.
PHILADELPHIA
15-year-old ready for Ivy League years
Brittney Exline is too young to vote, drive a car or go alone to an R-rated movie, but at 15 she is beginning her Ivy League career Wednesday when classes start at the University of Pennsylvania.
She said she doesn’t really notice the age gap between her and her 18-year-old peers – and neither do they.
“I didn’t tell people right off the bat that I was 15,” Exline said. “A lot of people were pretty surprised.”
Exline grew up in Colorado Springs, where at age 8 she was already in sixth grade. She turned 15 in February and graduated from Palmer High School a few months later.
There have been younger college students: Jessica Meeker enrolled at Penn State two months before her 13th birthday, graduating in 2004 at age 16.
