Traffic crash on westbound I-70 hits patrol car, Clear Creek County CO


A major traffic crash occurred on the westbound side of I-70 near mile marker 237. A patrol car was struck in the incident. Additional patrol support and traffic attenuators were requested to manage traffic and ensure safety.
Audio|Source: Front Range - CDOT Safety Patrol and Traffic Management Teams
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Transcript:
00:00
Yeah, an update. That crash is actually westbound, not eastbound.
00:02
Looking at the camera wrong.
00:04
Golden by John 4.
00:05
Can you show me in service and have a good morning.
00:08
Five-on-four, show you in service at 519.
00:10
Have a good day.
00:11
Holden if I'm Mary Forth, can you show me the same traffic? Have a good day.
00:14
I'm Mary Forrest.
00:15
You in service at 520.
00:16
Have a good day.
00:17
Hold it, I, George One.
00:18
Go ahead, 9 George 1.
00:19
Yeah, it's gonna be a little while.
00:21
They're waiting for state to get on scene.
00:23
Can you get hold of the Patrol 45 or 9 George 3 or, or not George 3, Paul 2 or 3, and see if we get to attenuators out here? I guess a patrol car already got hit.
00:34
Yeah, kind of do that.
00:35
Hold in, primary five.
00:37
Primary five.
00:38
Good morning, can you show me 1041?
00:39
Just out 521 and have a good day.
00:41
Golden, 9 George 2, Highway 9.
00:43
Holden, 9 George 2, Highway 9.
00:45
1 second, 9 George 2.
00:50
9 George 2.
00:51
9 George 2.
00:52
9 George 1. Good.
00:53
Hey, I'm on a major crash over here at MM 237 westbound.
00:57
When you get up here,
00:58
let's see if you can kind of sit next to me so we could guide traffic over.
01:01
We already had a police car hit.
01:03
And if you got anybody available, bring an intuator this way, let's see what you can do, huh?
01:07
Yeah, 104. I was just going to call you after I 1041.
01:11
I never got a call for that.
01:12
And I'm on the weekend on duty.
01:13
Yeah,
01:14
copy that nine George too. I was about to call you here a second.
01:16
It just happened a little while ago.
01:18
I did that nine Paul two, Noah as well, and that's his area as well.
01:22
Yeah, it's been for.
01:23
Well, I was a weekday on call.
01:24
I never got a call.
01:27
We've been having a problem with this lately.
01:29
Yeah, that's my bad.
01:30
I kind of flipped it up.
01:31
I was looking at cameras wrong.
01:32
I thought it was eastbound at first.
01:33
I had to change all that.
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