People really need to slow down on I70

Valind

Valind

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This is happening too often. Too many times have I seen or heard of accidents like this. I have witnessed a few this season.

This happen this morning.....

SILVERTHORNE —A rollover Tuesday morning on Interstate 70 killed a pregnant woman who was ejected from the back seat of an SUV traveling eastbound below the Eisenhower Tunnel.

According to Colorado State Patrol, the back seat passenger was 7-months pregnant and may not have been wearing a seat belt.

“There were three people in the vehicle and the back seat female passenger was partially ejected,” said Capt. Ron Prater with the Colorado State Patrol. “The vehicle went approximately 300 feet off the road and rolled as many as six times.”

According to Capt. Prater, the Nissan Pathfinder that rolled off the roadway was registered in Frisco, but the names of the passengers are not being released at this time. Lake Dillon Fire-Rescue crews were the first to arrive on the scene and had to use ropes and pulleys to repel down the embankment in order to extract passengers from the wreck.

“Responders repelled down and stabilized the car so they could extract the people inside,” said Brandon Williams with Lake Dillon Fire-Rescue. “It was an incredible team effort and crews were able to lift the passengers up by hand and get them into the ambulance that was waiting on scene.”

According to Williams, the steep angle of the embankment made the scene incredibly difficult to navigate. Poor visibility also complicated the rescue efforts, he said.

State Patrol is now following up with witnesses who saw the crash but suspect the cause was directly related to traveling too fast for the road conditions.

“It’s important to send out the safety message that driving in the mountains of Colorado is very serious,” said Prater. “Conditions can change from wet to icy in just a matter of miles, and people need to slow down and be aware of the ever-changing conditions.”
 
9news.com

Emergency crews responded to Interstate 70 just before the Eisenhower Tunnel. The Nissan Pathfinder was approaching the tunnel from the west when it slid off of the highway and over the embankment.

The pregnant woman was unrestrained and traveling in the back of the Pathfinder which a relative was driving, according to the Office of the Summit County Coroner.

The SUV slid at least 200 feet shortly after 8 a.m.

Witness Greg Peratt described the event. "One gentleman was out screaming for help... another lady was thrown from the vehicle, she had head injuries... got some rags on her head and then just started digging for the other gal whose completely pinned underneath it and trapped."

The woman pinned under the vehicle was 7 months pregnant. "Her brother... he was just heart broken trying to (find her and) just pleading for help," Peratt said.

All three victims were taken to a Summit County hospital. The pregnant woman and her fetus died.

The two other victims are listed in serious condition. No names have been released but the coroner described the deceased woman as a Summit County resident in her mid 20s.

Traffic in the area was not shut down but slowed considerably specifically near where the accident happened.

The roads in the area are said to be very slushy, icy and snowpacked and motorist are urged to use caution when driving in the high country.

 
yeah you aren't going to get there that much quicker if you are doing 70 instead of 50. I also hate it when it is icy and snowing and people do 70 in the tunnel and then comeout of it and are fucked
 
people need to speed up sometimes too, i hate it when your going the speed limit, and its like barely sprinkling snow, and you see some dumbass in the left lane going 15. i was going like 50 one time on a straight section, there was snow on the ground, but like 1 inch at most, and some guy in a pickup was in the middle of the road going like 15, he was taking up both lanes so nobody could get past, and everyone had to squeeze between him and the barrier.
obviously people need to slow down when it gets snowy, but some people treat it like the worse conditions ever when its like sprinkling snow, and its more dangerous than going the speed limit/speeding cause people going normal speed come up on them so quick.
 
coskibum, do you work for news9? Seems like you have a news update every other week from them.

As for driving on I70. i've been nearly hit millions of times by people going 15 mph slower than the speed limit and myself. People should watch there speed, but at the same time, people gotta step on it when there is nothing going on. it's almost as dangerous to go super slow unless the conditions are bad, if your going even the speed limit around those corners and someone else has there flashers on and is barley moving as you come around the corner you could nail them.

It's up and down. If you drive safe and respectable thats all anyone can ask! Don't drive drunk, and don't drive aggresively but defensive and safe watching all of your areas and maintaining a safe distance, and you can still get to the hill's in plenty of time. I drive pretty safe, and don't tail people and make it up faster than alot of people.

Leave earlier to to avoid traffic if you know your going to be weaving in and out. And or if traffic will be heavy. You avoid alot of idiots and can be alot more relaxed and get first turns if its a good pow day! :)
 
What I am trying to say is that if its icy or not plowed dont continue to do 85....i agree, the people doing like 40 in the fast line causes problems also.

No I do not work for 9news...just get bored all day at work....
 
The speed is not the problem truckers are.

If we ban truckers during peak hours accidents will greatly decrease along with traffic just because truck a is going 45 and trucker b is going 50 and must pass him doesn't mean we should all get home 15 minutes later.
 
Not true at all....this season the % of trucker accidents were down. CDOT send all the companys info packets on where to chain up and the new laws...the accident % has improved for truckers this past winter...
 
I think you should post this somewhere else though, posting this in a colorado forum on NS is gonna get like 300 views. Not to mention most the people who do read it probably get rides from there parents, and or aren't part of the PROBLEMS with I70. The majority of those accidents are rental cars from DIA.
 
yah a bunch of crashes are rentals from DIA driven by people who dont know how to drive in the mountains, but a FUCKLOAD of them are colorado residents who think theyre immune to accidents on I-70 cause theyve lived there all their lives.

during my freshman year at CU, a truck full of colorado locals drove straight off the road in front of us in a heavy fog and one of the guys died, sheer lapse of concentration.

bottom line is that I-70 is a god-awfully dangerous no matter what, and it's 100 times worse during bad weather. im just glad im going to be living in aspen next year so i wont have to be driving around on it very often, and i especially wont be driving on it during storms.
 
What I got from that wasn't to slow down, but to wear your seatbelt and not drive an SUV. In clear conditions, 85 is perfectly fine to cruise up i70, and when its snowing, people should have studs on and 65 is just fine in a car. Trucks and SUVs are whats dangerous.
 
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