WELD COUNTY, Colo. — A Weld County Sheriff's Office deputy was injured Wednesday morning after a semi-truck ran into their parked patrol vehicle, the Colorado State Patrol (CSP) said.
The crash happened around 4:13 a.m., as the Weld County sheriff's deputy was sitting in their parked patrol vehicle waiting for an unoccupied Nissan Rogue to be towed after its driver was arrested for suspicion of DUI.
According to CSP, a 2020 Volvo semi-truck hauling a trailer struck the parked patrol vehicle, which was on the right shoulder of southbound Interstate 25. The patrol vehicle had its emergency lights on at the time of the crash, CSP said.
The semi then went off the road into a ditch between I-25 and Frontage Road.
The deputy was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, according to CSP. The semi-truck driver — 26-year-old Flor Diaz Recio — was not injured.
Recio was cited for careless driving, causing injury, and failure to yield the right of way to a stationary vehicle.
The crash closed all but one lane of southbound I-25. The CSP Hazmat Unit had to address a fuel leak that occurred during the crash.
All lanes of the highway have since reopened.
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