GEORGETOWN, Colo. — Police in Georgetown said on Wednesday that they're looking for a truck driver who was involved in an accident Monday after the semi-truck they were driving damaged a bridge and a nearby home, then left the scene.
The accident happened around 7 p.m., as the driver of the semi-truck and trailer tried to make a left turn from Argentine Street onto 7th Street.
Police said that they believe retractable support equipment underneath the trailer caught the end of the railing on the bridge and ripped it from the wooden posts to which it was attached.
Even though Georgetown has a designated truck route for longer vehicles with a permit, the semi-truck driver was not using that designated route. The route that the driver used Monday was too narrow for the truck to pass, Sgt. John Gaskins of the Georgetown Police Department said.
Photos provided by Georgetown Police shows the wooden railing that was ripped off the bridge protruding out of the side of a house that's near the bridge.
A man and a woman were inside the house when the crash happened. One of them suffered minor injuries.
The semi-truck is described as a white cab pulling a white box trailer. According to Georgetown Police, the truck has a white windbreaker on the right side. The left side is believed to be a missing its windbreaker and expected to have light-to-moderate damage along the cab and trailer. There is very little information to go on to identify the driver, police said.
"At this point in time, we have no leads. There were no markings on the trailer. There was some markings on the passenger door of the cab, but due to the quality of the video [we're] unable to read it," Gaskins said.
>VIDEO BELOW: Surveillance footage captures semi-truck minutes after the incident.
They said the driver left the scene without stopping, and video that shows the truck leaving town at a traffic roundabout is poor quality, and it's difficult for police to make out any markings on the truck.
Judging from the video, police believe the truck was headed westbound on Interstate 70.
The estimated cost of the damage is not yet known.
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