The Colorado Department of Transportation is unveiling its new crash prevention trucks that will help protect emergency crews responding to scenes. This is part of the agency’s traffic incident management training to keep everyone safe.
CDOT says each of these trucks will be used to protect emergency responders. If a driver is too close and they are not paying attention, the attenuators will take the impact of the crash. As drivers are going through an area of a crash, sometimes the secondary crash is a lot worse than the first.
CDOT says each of these trucks costs about $250,000 and will be mostly used around the Denver area. Right now, they have about two of them that would be used for crash protection. Each time one of these attenuators takes the blow, it protects the firefighters, police officers, tow truck operators, and EMS on scene…