EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. — A driver who was allegedly intoxicated crashed into a Colorado State Patrol trooper’s bike and a tow truck early Wednesday morning on Interstate 25.
Both equally the trooper and tow truck driver had minor accidents, but two many others were hospitalized, CSP claimed.
Soon after 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, the CSP trooper responded to a one-vehicle crash on southbound I-25 in the vicinity of mile marker 157.
By 1:30 a.m., the trooper was wrapping up the investigation into the crash. The trooper’s motorcycle was parked on the correct shoulder with unexpected emergency lights on. A tow truck with its amber lights activated was parked in front of the motorcycle, CSP explained.
As the tow truck operator was loading the crashed motor vehicle onto the mattress, the driver of a 1998 Ford pickup headed southbound in the still left lane begun to drift across all lanes of targeted visitors in advance of crashing into the bike and the tow truck.
The motorcycle was fully ruined in the crash, CSP mentioned.
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The trooper experienced been standing on the west side of the guardrail at the time and the tow truck operator was standing among the truck and the guardrail. Debris struck both of them, but they had just insignificant accidents, CSP stated.
The driver of the Ford, Bernard Ewertz, 55, of Greeley, had reasonable accidents and his passenger, a 31-12 months-old woman from Greeley, was critically injured, CSP stated. They had been both equally transported to a clinic.
Two lanes of I-25 were shut for about 4 hours for the investigation.
Ewertz was later arrested on a cost of driving below the impact.