1 rushed to hospital after rock slide on highway in Colorado’s mountains
One person was rushed to the hospital after a rock slide in the westbound lanes of I-70 near Fall River Road on Thursday morning.
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Colorado (KCNC) — One person was rushed to the hospital after a rock slide in the westbound lanes of I-70 near Fall River Road on Thursday morning. According to the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office, the rock slide happened at mile marker 236 just before 6:30 a.m.
One vehicle crashed and other vehicles have blown tires. A total of five vehicles were damaged due to the rocks.
Westbound traffic was at a standstill. According to the sheriff’s office, the Colorado State Patrol is investigating and Colorado Department of Transportation crews cleared off the rocks.
According to CDOT, the rocks were a handful of “roughly softball to basketball-sized rocks” that rolled onto the roadway off a fairly steep-sided rockface near mile marker 236.
CDOT said in a statement, “Rockfalls aren’t a common occurrence in this area, but when they do, they usually stop short of the roadway.”
The roadway reopened at 7 a.m., but the shoulder remained closed.
The person injured in the rock slide suffered non-life threatening injuries.
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