Officials with the Colorado Department of Transportation sent out a warning to Denver-area drivers on Thursday afternoon to avoid heading up to the high country due to a fatal crash on Interstate 70. Westbound I-70 reopened after 5 p.m., about 4 hours after the collision, and there were still big backups at 5:30 p.m.
The crash was in the westbound lanes right before the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel.
A person and a dog were killed in the crash, which involved a semi truck and a pickup truck hauling a trailer. It happened just after 1 p.m. in the westbound lanes and a large fire with heavy smoke resulted from the collision…