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Truck driver crashes at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, hits two planes after medical event

The driver of the pickup truck was taken to the hospital

A photo of a woman named Julianna O'ClairDENVER, CO - OCTOBER 10: Denver Post reporter Katie Langford. (Photo By Patrick Traylor/The Denver Post)
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A 47-year-old man driving a Ford F-150 crashed through a Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport fence and hit two unoccupied planes Monday morning.

A pickup truck drove through a fence and hit two planes at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport on Monday morning. (Provided by Jefferson County Sheriff's Office via X)
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office on X)
A pickup truck drove through a fence and hit two planes at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport on Monday morning. (Provided by Jefferson County Sheriff's Office via X)

Investigators believe the driver was experiencing a medical event when he crashed onto airport property at 8:51 a.m., the Colorado State Patrol said in a news release Monday.

The truck hit two small private aircraft and rolled to a stop on the edge of airport property.

The driver was not injured in the crash and was taken to the hospital for an unrelated medical condition, CSP officials said.

No one else was injured in the crash, according to .

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