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April 22, 2021
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Beginning Thursday, April 29, there will be a full closure on Airport Road directly in front of Fire Station #8, between Lakewood Circle and Audubon Drive for sanitary sewer work. Motorists will be detoured at Fountain Boulevard or Pikes Peak Avenue for east / west access. The road closure will be in place as follows:
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The closure will start at 4 a.m. on Thursday, April 29.
Access to fire department, residences, and businesses will remain open at all times on Margorie Lee Drive by way of Lakewood Circle.
One lane through the work area will be open for emergency vehicle use only.
Police are calling for witnesses to a truck collision in Malmsbury last week.
Investigators have been told a white semi-trailer was travelling northbound on the Calder Freeway when it veered from the road and struck a safety barrier and concrete pillar at the Spring Creek Bridge just before 5.30am on Wednesday, January 13.
The truck rig then plunged off the bridge between the north and southbound lanes, crushing the cabin.
The 36-year-old male driver was trapped in the vehicle for more than two hours before being freed and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Investigators wish to speak to anyone who saw the crash or the truck prior to the crash.
Jessica Micallef
All northbound lanes of the Calder Freeway near Malmsbury have reopened following a clean up from yesterday’s truck collision.
A 36-year-old male truck driver plunged more than 20 metres off a bridge in Malmsbury yesterday morning.
A semi-trailer was travelling north on the Calder Freeway when it veered from the road and struck a safety barrier and concrete pillar at the Spring Creek Bridge about 5.20am.
The truck rig plunged off the bridge, crushing the cabin and trapping the driver and sole occupant of the vehicle for more than two hours before being freed.
The man was airlifted to the Royal Melbourne Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police said the semi-truck and trailer was travelling north bound on the Calder Freeway in Malmsbury, central Victoria, when it veered off course at about 5.20am on Wednesday.