Three Die When Elderly Driver Heads the Wrong Way Down I-70 on Christmas Night

Three Die When Elderly Driver Heads the Wrong Way Down I-70 on Christmas Night
The accident scene on Interstate 70 and Tower Road in Aurora. Screenshot via Bing Map
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An 86-year-old man and his 96-year-old passenger, as well as a third person are dead after the man drove the wrong way down I-70 outside Aurora, Colorado, on Christmas night and collided with a pickup truck. Trooper Josh Lewis of the Colorado State Patrol reported that 86-year-old Gerald Arnett, 86, headed west on the eastbound side of I-70 with his passenger, Betty Arnett, 96, both from Wheat Ridge.
The Arnett’s 2003 Dodge Caravan minivan struck head-on into the 2001 Dodge pickup truck driven by 24-year-old Kyle Parker,24, of Strasburg.