According to the Colorado State Patrol (CSP) your cell phone company has devised a system where your 911 cell phone call will go to the closest designated emergency agency. For instance if you were driving near Grand Junction your phone call might go to the Grand Junction Police or Mesa County Sheriff's Office.

     If your call is about an accident or breakdown, the incident will be referred to the closest Colorado State Patrol Office. There are six CSP offices in Colorado: Denver, Craig, Alamosa, Pueblo, Montrose and Grand Junction (Grand Junction will close in 2002).

     If you dial *CSP on your cell phone you will be connected with the CSP office closest to you. This system was set up by the state to allow citizens to alert authorities to aggressive drivers and drunk drivers and can be used to report stalls and accidents.

     Dispatchers say that quite often callers do not know exactly (or even remotely) where they are calling from. Because of that it is recommended that travelers keep track of where they are by monitoring a state map and keeping track of mile markers.