Three years after a truck lost its brakes and crashed into traffic, killing four people and leaving 10 others injured, a second runaway truck ramp is being planned for Mount Vernon Canyon.
Just days after the April 2019 incident, engineers began asking what can be done to prevent this from happening again.
“I didn’t want to lose my baby, I didn’t even know the gender yet so I didn’t want that to happen,” she told CBS4.The crash occurred when the driver of a truck lost its brakes coming out of the mountains. There was a runaway truck ramp on I-70 in Mount Vernon Canyon, but he missed it and soon barreled into stopped traffic near Colorado Mills.was the that driver. CBS4 investigator Rick Sallinger asked him last November why he didn’t take the ramp, he had no good answer.
Sallinger asked CDOT engineer Kevin Brown, “If we had had this second ramp, might this tragedy have been avoided?”CBS4 drove along with CDOT chief engineer Stephen Harelson to see where the ramp will go. It’s down below the existing ramp which will now be shortened at the top to make it moreBrown added, “There will be another accident, another tragic crash, if we do nothing.”
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