WHEAT RIDGE, Colo.—Two people died in a crash on Interstate 70 Friday when a suspected drunken driver drove the wrong way on the highway, authorities said.
Police said a Nissan Sentra heading east in westbound lanes hit a Volvo head on. The Volvo driver, Woon D. Baek, 65, of Aurora, got out of his car and was struck and killed by a passing semitrailer.
The truck also hit the Nissan and the driver, 26-year-old Heydi Margarita Hau Chi of Denver, was thrown from the car.
Three other people in the Volvo, including Baek’s wife, were hospitalized. Police said their injuries weren’t life-threatening. Their names weren’t released.
The truck driver wasn’t injured.
Police believe Hau Chi was under the influence of alcohol or drugs based on reports of a Nissan Sentra driving erratically in the west Denver suburb of Wheat Ridge around 3 a.m. Friday. Police Lt. Wade Hammond said the car hit a parked vehicle and took off, but left behind a license plate, which was matched to a Nissan Sentra.
Police received a report at 3:25 a.m. about a car driving east in the westbound lanes of I-70. A minute later, the crash occurred, police said.
