Overturned semi shuts down westbound I-70 for 5 hours
Colorado Department of Transportation/Courtesy photo
A tractor-trailer carrying train engines and axles overturned at the west end of Dowd Junction before 8 a.m. on Tuesday, shutting down both westbound lanes of Interstate 70 at mile marker 170 just a mile from the Avon exit.
The interstate didn’t reopen until just before 1 p.m. Trooper Gabriel Moltrer with the Colorado State Patrol said officials planned to wrap up their investigation on Tuesday and have more details about what caused the accident later in the week.
“Basically at about 7:45, there was a rolled-over CMV with fuel leaking,” said Austyn Dineen, a Colorado Department of Transportation spokesperson. “Ultimately the crew has been in cleanup mode ever since. With a crash that size, and the hazmat, it does take them time to open it.”
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Colorado Department of Transportation/Courtesy photo
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Colorado Department of Transportation/Courtesy photo
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Colorado Department of Transportation/Courtesy photo
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Colorado Department of Transportation/Courtesy photo
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Colorado Department of Transportation/Courtesy photo
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