DENVER (KDVR) — A crash has closed both directions of Interstate 70 near the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation website.
In an update from Colorado State Patrol on Monday afternoon, the agency said that a trooper was airlifted following a crash in the area.
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At 10:46 a.m., the trooper was parked on the shoulder of I-70 eastbound near milepost 215 when he heard on the radio that there was a crash behind him in the westbound lanes. The trooper activated his lights and began turning left across both lanes of traffic.
During the turn, a Subaru Forester traveling in the left of the eastbound lanes struck the driver-side door of the trooper’s vehicle. The vehicles then traveled into the westbound lanes, slowly colliding with a white Chevrolet truck and a white GMC Sierra…