GARFIELD COUNTY — Interstate 70 must have seemed like a movie set Tuesday afternoon. The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office says a drunken semi-truck driver ran cars off the highway and eluded police until they punctured his tires with a spike strip and took out a wheel.
The wild events that started between Rifle and Silt and wound more than 25 miles west on I-70 started about 3:45 p.m., according to the Sheriff’s Office.
The semi eventually came to stop, minus a right front wheel, near De Beque.
No one was injured, and the driver, 44-year-old Christopher Brostek of Deland, Fla., was booked into the Garfield County Detention Facility on preliminary charges of driving under the influence, reckless driving and felony vehicular eluding.
His female passenger, who was not identified, was taken to an alcohol- detoxification facility, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
