Two people died Sunday in a wrong-way, head-on crash involving two cars and a semitrailer on Interstate 70 in western Colorado, state patrol officials said.
Colorado State Patrol troopers responded shortly after 2:30 a.m. Sunday to the three-vehicle crash at mile marker 93 on westbound I-70, near Rifle, according to a news release from the agency.
The driver of a 2022 Subaru, a 17-year-old boy who has not been publicly identified, was headed east in the westbound lanes when he struck a 2004 GMC Yukon head-on, state patrol officials said.
The GMC driver, an unidentified 18-year-old woman, then hit the Peterbilt semitrailer in the lane next to her, according to the release.
Both the Subaru and GMC drivers died at the scene of the crash and will be publicly identified by the Garfield County Coroner’s Office. The semitrailer driver was not injured, investigators said.
The crash remained under investigation on Monday, according to the Colorado State Patrol.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
