Pet carrier and debris spark hazard on Interstate 70, Eagle County CO
A pet carrier and plastic box lie in the middle of I-70 eastbound, creating a dangerous obstacle. Authorities report a vehicle hit the debris and fled the scene, raising safety concerns.
Audio|Source: Summit and Eagle County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Do you have anyone on in the area near 770 at the 1370 spend?
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Um,
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No, what do you have?
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Currently I don't have a trooper and Vail doesn't have a deputy it sounds like.
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There's a pet carrier and a plastic box in the middle of the road.
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They've already got in touch with me about the pet carrier.
00:26
But it looks like it's already been hit and somebody is on the side of the road.
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All righty then, thank you, such a brief.
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Be doing a song you stop, it looks like.
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Copy where are up.
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RAD 87X.
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Copy, and I'll put you on 33, 1343.
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Free stuff on Ciburton.
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Ciburton, Cicester.
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6.53 to base.
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I am in Coach 380305.
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I did my lift at 12, excuse me, 13,
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010,
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yeah, just 10, okay.
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And I have left the Fort College Yard on time.
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Copy, thank you.
02:28
14,
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we are calling them out.
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We have all our Highway 13 blocks ready to 7.
02:45
1546. I apologize.
02:47
Would you be able to move up a little?
02:56
brick forty copy suspicious spruce island suspicious at spruce island 1386 broken lambs drive less than an hour ago
03:09
RP's teen kids think they found a body in the woods near this location between Broken Lamps and Sunrise Point.
03:17
It's in a bivy sack or tent.
03:20
They tried to poke it with a stick.
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Thought it was a body.
03:23
There's tracks leading to it, but not away from it.
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1346.
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Fortin fourteen you can clear here.
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33 left and that's 1340.
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On Tro Sport Charlie 22, clear.
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Copy. And while I have U.I.
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70 at 137 Eastbound, there was a pet carrier and a plastic box in the middle of the road.
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And it sounds like CDOT just called and advised someone had hit it in there on the side of the road that so far they have not called in.
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And it looks like the vehicle actually left.
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I-70, Colorado
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