Drivers involved in a 70-car pileup are speaking out about what exactly happened. The harrowing incident happened in Colorado earlier this week.
The Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office confirmed a multi-car crash on an on-ramp to Interstate 70 East. Snowy conditions caused the crash, which featured more than 75 vehicles in total. It ended up blocking the highway and closing the Eisenhower Tunnel.
"It started snowing hard like a squall, the snow got heavier and all of a sudden we hit ice," Tom Brock, who had been driving with his wife, told CBS Colorado. "Everybody was all over the road." Fortunately, he wasn't seriously injured.
"I didn't see it coming," Emily Medina, another driver, said in a separate interview with CBS Colorado.
"I was just exiting the tunnel, and everything looked pitch black. It was snowing heavily. When I went to brake, because I could see cars that had already crashed, I was trying to slow down, and that's when I crashed," she continued.
70-Car Pileup
"I think I was actually one of the last people to crash in that pileup," Medina said. "Then, right at the end, another truck cut across the road, and there were even more crashes, and people were injured. The person I hit, because, yes, I did crash into someone, they were quite badly injured."
"It was terrifying watching semis jackknife behind you," driver Bobby Ryan told CBS Colorado. "It's not what I'd want to be doing when you're stuck in your car and there's a guardrail on the right and a median on the left."
Local restaurant owner Ron Grady helped those involved in the crash by offering them shellter.
"It could be a friendly face or a cup of coffee, just something that we can do to try to help," Grady told CBS Colorado. "If there's people that need help, we want to help. It's just a really nice, small Colorado community."
