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I-70 crash victim praises Good Samaritans, says she’s “lucky to be alive”

Leslie Maddox suffered face, arm injuries in crash on Thursday evening

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Leslie Maddoz talks with reports from Denver7 about the I-70 crash on April 25, 2019.
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Leslie Maddoz talks with reporters from Denver7 about the I-70 crash on April 25, 2019.

Leslie Maddox had just gotten off work at Red Rocks Community College and was on her way to a fitness class when a semi-truck slammed into her car on I-70 under the Denver West overpass.

“The whole front of my car was blown away,” she said. “There was glass everywhere.”

Maddox was on her speaker phone talking to her daughter.

“I said, ‘Oh my God! I’ve been hit.'”

She said her daughter “heard all the alarms going off violently,” then her phone went dead.

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