Two people were taken to the hospital after a driver allegedly drove the wrong way while drunk on Interstate 25 near Denver early Sunday morning, causing a three-car crash. A responding police officer's patrol car was then also struck, but no one in that secondary crash, including the officer, was hospitalized, police say.

It all started around 2 a.m. when Greenwood Village police and Colorado State Patrol responded to a crash on I-25 near Orchard Road. Greenwood Village police say a suspected drunk driver was driving north in the southbound lanes. That driver struck two cars and two people involved in those crashes were taken to an area hospital.

Then, while conducting traffic control related to that crash, an unrelated driver crashed into one of the police cars at the scene of the init

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