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Vehicle off road on steep embankment near Empire, Idaho Springs CO

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Reported: 10/27/2025 11:04 PM

Near US-40, Idaho Springs, CO 80452

A vehicle went off the road down a steep embankment near Mile Marker 22 on Highway 40 near Empire, Colorado. The driver and a female passenger are inside the vehicle. No one is injured, but the female cannot climb the embankment to return to the road and is waiting for help.

Audio|Source: Clear Creek County Law Enforcement, Fire, EMS and Mountain Rescue - Digital

01:40

Transcript:

00:00

Hi, Covey. There's a report of a vehicle going off the side of the road near Milemarker 22, Highway 40, Highway 40 at the 252.

00:08

The RP is no longer going to be in the area and advised that the vehicle just went down a steep embankment.

00:16

No one is injured and the RP originally said that there's female stuck in the vehicle, but now saying that the female is not stuck just inside.

00:30

See, Cassidy.

00:32

Uh,

00:36

an RP can't give a better description other than between persons in Empire and somewhere around the 2x2.

00:46

It's approximately two miles outside the Empire headed towards Winter Park.

00:55

Copy.

00:57

Did you make contact with the driver to know if there's no injuries?

01:02

A firm he did.

01:03

The driver told him no one was injured for the call taker.

01:07

The female that is in the vehicle is not necessarily entrapped or stuck, but the embankment that they went down is pretty steep and probably would be pretty hard for her to walk up out of.

01:21

All right, drop.

01:23

It's going to take me a little bit to get over there.

01:30

Copy. And yeah, it looks at the call taker, just as clarifying the notes, so the drivers in the vehicle, because the embankment is too steep to climb, they're not trapped in the car, but they can't get back up to the road.

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Near US-40, Idaho Springs, CO 80452

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