AURORA, Colo. — A family from Missouri says they're stranded in Denver after a fiery crash involving an Amazon truck on Interstate 70 in Arapahoe County last week.
The crash happened in the early morning hours of June 17. The Colorado State Patrol said 46-year-old Merdan Bekiyev lost control of his semitruck and crossed into oncoming traffic. Bekiyev’s truck and trailer came to rest in the eastbound lanes, blocking all the lanes as Quinndale Allen’s car approached.
“Next thing I know, I see this Prime truck across the highway,” Allen said. “I had a split decision, hit the trailer or hit the truck, and I hit the truck.”
Allen and his seven passengers were heading home from Denver to Columbia, Missouri after visiting Colorado for a Juneteenth celebration.
He said the Amazon-branded truck was blocking the entire interstate, but there were no flares or anything to alert him of the danger ahead in the dark.
“That guy was abandoning that truck, and he was just going to leave it,” Allen said. “He didn’t do anything he was supposed to do. Nothing.”
Allen’s family remains stranded in Denver. His daughter Leeanna Mayfield said they lost everything in the crash.
“None of us have IDs. All our credit cards, everything was destroyed. Nobody knows who we are,” Mayfield said. “We can’t get on a bus. We can’t get on a plane. We can’t even get a rental without identification.”
They said they haven’t heard from Amazon since the crash, and are hoping the company will step up to help them get home.
“They should, but they haven’t,” Allen said. “And we haven’t heard from them. It’s like they dropped off the face of the earth and left us here to suffer.”
Bekiyev was cited for careless driving causing injury, CSP said.
Amazon spokesperson Montana MacLachlan said Bekiyev worked for a third-party carrier, and is no longer working on behalf of Amazon.
“This was a terrible accident and we’re thankful everyone is recovering. We have been supporting law enforcement with their investigation, and the driver involved is no longer delivering on behalf of Amazon," MacLachlan wrote in an email.
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