Semi driver killed in crash with snow plow on I-25 in Huerfano County

An early morning crash on Interstate 25 in southern Colorado’s Huerfano County killed the driver of a semitrailer and sent a Colorado Department of Transportation snow plow driver to the hospital, according to Colorado State Patrol.

State patrol officials said the two-vehicle crash happened on northbound I-25 near milepost 57, just north of Walsenburg, at 4:53 a.m. Wednesday. Investigators believe the semitrailer rear-ended the snow plow.

The driver of the semitrailer died at the scene of the crash and paramedics took the snow plow driver to a hospital with unknown injuries, state patrol officials said.

According to CDOT, the right shoulder of northbound I-25 is closed for the crash cleanup and investigation between Exit 56 for Redrock Road and Exit 59 for Butte Road, about 7 miles north of Walsenburg. Walsenburg is about 37 miles north of Trinidad.