Authorities have identified the 68-year-old Illinois man struck and killed by a vehicle late Thursday on Interstate 70 in Garfield County as he tried to warn motorists of a disabled vehicle in the westbound lanes.
Donald Salisbury, of Streator, Ill., was pronounced dead at Valley View Hospital.
Coroner Robert Glassmire said Friday that his investigators learned Salisbury was the passenger in a vehicle traveling westbound on I-70 when it struck an elk about 10:30 p.m.
“The vehicle became disabled and was blocking lanes of travel,” Glassmire wrote in a death bulletin. “Witnesses reported that Mr. Salisbury had stepped out of his vehicle and was attempting to alert westbound traffic of the disabled vehicle in the roadway when he was struck.”
Glassmire says Salisbury was traveling with family members.
An autopsy is scheduled for Friday afternoon and officials say the cause of death will likely be from blunt force trauma and the manner of death accident.
