Crime & Safety

Passenger Van Rollover Wreck On I-25 Kills 1, Injures Others

BREAKING: A van carrying five or six people hit another car and rolled over in the median near Longmont Tuesday.

LONGMONT, CO – A rollover crash of a loaded passenger van on I-25 killed one person and injured others Tuesday morning, the Colorado State Patrol said. The crash happened about 8:30 a.m. on northbound I-25 near Colorado Highway 119 near Longmont.

A 2011 Chevy passenger van, carrying between five and six passengers, traveling northbound collided with another sedan then rolled over in the grass between the highway and the frontage road, said Colorado State Patrol Spokesman Trooper Josh Lewis. One person in the van was declared dead on scene, Lewis said.

Others were injured and taken to nearby hospitals, he said. The driver of the sedan was not injured.

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I-25 northbound reopened around 11:15 p.m.

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