A 53-year-old Kansas woman is dead after a truck struck her car on Interstate 70 east of Seibert late this afternoon.
The woman was a passenger in a 1962 Studebaker traveling west on I-70 at about 4 p.m. when a 2007 International moving truck pulling a car trailer hit the left rear of the Studebaker with its right front.
The Studebaker went off the right side of the interstate and rolled one and a half times, ejecting both the driver and the passenger, the Colorado State Patrol said.
The truck also went off the right side of the highway and rolled 3/4 times and traveled through a fence.
George R. Fromm, 64 of La Salle, was driving the truck. He was treated and released at the scene, the state patrol said.
A passenger in the truck also sustained minor injuries.
James F. Calhoun, 46 of Claflin, Kan., was driving the Studebaker when it rolled. He was seriously injured and was transported to the Kit Carson County Hospital in Burlington, and later airlifted to St. Anthony’s Central in Denver.
The female passenger was pronounced dead on the scene by the Kit Carson County coroner.
Her identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
Fromm has been charged with two misdemeanors, including careless driving causing death, and careless driving causing bodily injury.
Alcohol and speed are not suspected as contributing factors in this accident.
