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UPDATE: One dead, I-70 closed after head-on accident
One person is dead, all eastbound lanes and one westbound lane of Interstate 70 were shut down at 1:35 p.m. today at 23 Road after a two-car, head-on accident just west of 24 Road, said Officer TJ Rix of the Grand Junction Police Department.
An infant and at least one other person were taken to area hospitals, according to dispatched reports.
According to a Daily Sentinel photographer on scene, it appears that a minivan was traveling the wrong direction in the eastbound lanes of the interstate and hit a red car head on with a woman and infant inside.
The accident scene is about an eighth of a mile east of the 23 Road overpass.
The highway is closed eastbound at 22 Road and could remain so until 6 p.m. or later. Motorists must exit there and can get back on the highway at 24 Road, said Mike Page, spokesman for the Grand Junction Fire Department.
— Sentinel staff
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