DENVER (KDVR) — The sole occupant of a pickup truck that plummeted 300 feet into a gorge in southwestern Colorado only sustained minor injuries, first responders announced on Facebook.
The crash was reported by Ouray Mountain Rescue Team, Inc., on the nonprofit’s Facebook page. The rescue workers responded to the crash report at about 12:20 p.m. on Thursday on Highway 550, also called the Million Dollar Highway, between mileposts 88 and 89, which is Red Mountain Pass.
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First responders with Ouray County EMS, Ouray Volunteer Fire Department and the Ouray Mountain Rescue Team performed a technical rope rescue for the pickup truck’s occupant after the truck plummeted about 300 feet into the Uncompahgre River Gorge, which runs along the highway.
Thankfully, the driver sustained only minor injuries.
It’s almost the exact spot where Colorado State Patrol troopers responded to a deadly crash that claimed the lives of two people in August this year. In that crash, the silver Honda Civic traveled off the road’s shoulder and rolled about 320 feet down the side of the mountain before crashing upside down in the river. A juvenile girl who had been trapped in the car was saved, but two adults in the car were pronounced dead at the scene…