Driver responsible for double fatal Highway 6 crash was wearing ankle monitor

The Colorado State Patrol is investigating a deadly crash in Clear Creek Canyon. A man trying to get away from Clear Creek County deputies crashed into another car on Tuesday and the impact killed an innocent driver. The suspect also died.

Deputies first tried to stop the car near Highway 40 and Highway 6. At one point the suspect drove the wrong way on Interstate 70, and the crash happened on Highway 6 east of the interstate.

The man killed by that suspect was identified as 51-year-old Steven Ainsworth from Arvada. The black Lexus he was driving wound up upside down in Clear Creek after the collision.

Police say the man responsible for the crash was Christopher Moore. Moore was a habitual criminal on probation and being tracked by a GPS ankle monitor. The car he was driving wound up in pieces on the road…

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