VAIL — Vail Valley resident Rick MacCutcheon and his daughter Joanna didn’t expect to see a miracle on their way to church Sunday morning.
But that’s how they described the immediate aftermath of a horrific crash, when they witnessed two people walk out the wreckage unharmed.
when a semi truck driver hauling two trailers lost control in the westbound lanes, sending the truck flying off the overpass at Avon Road. One of the trailers landed on a Honda CR-V traveling south on Avon Road, crushing the driver’s side of the vehicle.
“The first thing that happened was just this huge plume of dust,” Rick MacCutcheon said. “Then flames started right away and there was an explosion. I turned to Joanna and said, ‘There’s somebody in there. We’ve got to go get them out.’ … We jumped out of the car and ran to the area, which was so dense with smoke and dust that you couldn’t see all that well, and this couple emerged from it and were walking out of it.”
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