A semi-trailer slammed into the Aspen Peak Cellars winery in Bailey overnight Monday, destroying the building and rendering the operation a “total loss,” according to authorities and the business.
The Colorado State Patrol says the tractor-trailer, a 1998 Freightliner, was southbound on U.S. 285 about midnight when it entered a curve at the bottom of a steep hill.
“The vehicle traveled across the northbound lanes and off of the left side of the roadway,” Trooper Nate Reid said Tuesday morning.
The tractor-trailer slammed into the winery. Pictures from Aspen Peak Cellars showed the vehicle underneath a mound of debris. It rolled a quarter-time, investigators said.
“Nobody was in the building,” Aspen Peak Cellars wrote in a Facebook post. “Thank God!”
Reid said diesel fuel and oil from the truck had to be contained or mitigated by the State Patrol’s hazardous materials team. The driver, a 34-year-old Boynton Beach, Fla., man, was taken to St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood with serious injuries.
Reid said it’s not clear if the driver, identified as Charles Constant, faces any charges.