{"id":1311690,"date":"2019-06-21T13:11:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T19:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=981945"},"modified":"2019-06-21T13:11:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T19:11:39","slug":"multi-car-accident-closes-i-70-for-lengthy-stretch-friday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/multi-car-accident-closes-i-70-for-lengthy-stretch-friday-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-car accident closes I-70 for lengthy stretch Friday afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/PI-traffic-alert-small.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/PI-traffic-alert-small.png 700w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/PI-traffic-alert-small-150x78.png 150w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/PI-traffic-alert-small-325x169.png 325w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/PI-traffic-alert-small-620x322.png 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A multi-car accident Friday afternoon around 1 p.m. at exit 97 near the town of Silt caused major delays on Interstate 70, closing parts of the heavily-congested roadway for nearly four hours.<\/p>\n<p>Commuters were redirected onto U.S. Highway 6 before the eastbound lanes were reopened around 2:30 p.m. Westbound lanes were fully opened at 4:30 p.m. after first responders were able to clean up the accident.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. The Post Independent will update the story as more information becomes available.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/i-70-westbound-closed-at-silt-exit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multi-car accident Friday afternoon around 1 p.m. at exit 97 near the town of Silt caused major delays on Interstate 70, closing parts of the heavily-congested roadway for nearly four hours. Commuters were redirected onto U.S. Highway 6 before the eastbound lanes were reopened around 2:30 p.m. Westbound lanes were fully opened at 4:30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1311690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 12:16:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}