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A motorcyclist was killed Monday on Interstate 70 when he lost control of his bike and fell under the rear wheels of a tractor-trailer.
The crash happened at about 11:20 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of the highway between Airport and Tower roads, said Lt. Jeff Turner, an Aurora Police Department spokesman.
The highway was closed until about 5 p.m. for the investigation.
A dramatic car chase that crisscrossed the Denver area during the Wednesday morning commute started when a man stole an SUV with a 4-year-old boy inside and ended after he carjacked two other vehicles and struck a state trooper.
Ryan Stone, a 28-year-old wanted in a drug case, covered about 75 miles before he caused a multi-vehicle crash at an intersection in Lone Tree, south of Denver. He then ran across a parking lot before appearing to give up, lying face-down in the snow as officers approached and pinned him to the ground.
Aurora emergency crews are on the scene of a five car-semi truck crash that also sparked a brush fire along Interstate 70.
Eastbound I-70 at Peña Boulevard will be closed for up to two hours, said an Aurora police spokesman.
The crash happened around 3:30 p.m. Thursday on eastbound I-70 near Airport Boulevard, police said.
Multiple people were injured, but the extent was not immediately clear, Amsler said.
One of the cars hit a power box, which caused an additional fire, police said
The driver of a semi was killed in a rollover accident on I-70 near Deer Trail Wednesday morning, prompting an investigation that closed the interstate in eastern Colorado for much of the morning.
The Colorado State Patrol confirmed the single-vehicle accident took place near mile marker 323, which is about five miles from Deer Trail, around 5 a.m. on Wednesday.
Traffic on the interstate was completely shut down as of 9 a.m., as crews worked to repair a bridge that was damaged by the crash