MESA COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) — On Wednesday, the Colorado State Patrol arrested a suspect in the Sept. 4 crash on U.S. Highway 6 that killed three people.
Patrick James Sneddon, 59, was arrested and taken to the Mesa County Detention Facility on the following charges:
- Three counts of vehicular homicide while driving under the influence of alcohol, one or more drugs or both.
- Two counts of failure to yield the right of way to a stationary public service utility vehicle resulting in death.
- Failure to drive in a single lane.
- Driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs or both.
Shortly after the crash, Colorado State Patrol said through an initial investigation troopers did not believe impairment was a factor.
“The two CDOT workers who were at the scene were walking back to their truck, we believe, when that Jeep Grand Cherokee collided with them and the CDOT truck parked on the scene,” Col. Matthew Packard, chief of Colorado State Patrol, said in September.
A passenger in the Jeep Sneddon was allegedly driving also died in the crash.
