The Mesa County Coroner’s Office released the identities of the victims involved in a crash that included two Colorado Department of Transportation workers.
Officials with the Colorado Department of Transportation and Colorado State Patrol say that three people are dead after a vehicle collided with roadway workers and rolled over on Highway 6 on the Western Slope on Wednesday morning.
The individuals who died in the crash were CDOT workers 23-year-old Nathan Jones of Grand Junction and 43-year-old Trenton Umberger of Grand Junction and 67-year-old Kathi Wallace of Mesa County.
“I can’t say this enough, today is a tragic day in Colorado,” said Colonel Matthew Packard, chief of Colorado State Patrol. “Two CDOT employees trying to do what they do make the state safer for people to travel in. And were out here serving the people of Colorado when they were killed.”
Investigators believe the Jeep was off the highway surface when it ran into the workers.