{"id":801765,"date":"2019-11-26T09:18:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=375089"},"modified":"2019-11-26T09:18:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T16:18:07","slug":"winter-storm-blasts-colorado-fatal-accident-on-interstate-70-near-vail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/winter-storm-blasts-colorado-fatal-accident-on-interstate-70-near-vail\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter storm blasts Colorado; fatal accident on Interstate 70 near Vail"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"910\" height=\"605\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/TDP-L-snowstorm112619-cha-822.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/TDP-L-snowstorm112619-cha-822.jpg 910w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/TDP-L-snowstorm112619-cha-822-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/TDP-L-snowstorm112619-cha-822-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\"><figcaption><strong>A pedestrian crosses snow-covered Broadway near Colfax Ave. in downtown Denver on Tuesday morning, Nov. 26, 2019. <\/strong><br \/><em>Hyoung Chang \/ The Denver Post<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The snowstorm barreling across Colorado on Tuesday morning is hitting the Front Range the hardest but also impacting travel in the mountains along Interstate 70.<\/p>\n<p>I-70 was closed Tuesday morning in both directions due to a multiple-vehicle crash at milemarker 170 near EagleVail involving a HAZMAT vehicle,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/i-70-closed-in-eaglevail-and-more-eagle-county-traffic-alerts-on-snowy-tuesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the Vail Daily<\/a>&nbsp;Fatalities have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>The highway is expected to be closed most of the day. Traffic is being redirected to Highway 6.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"More than 1,000 passengers spent the night at Denver International Airport (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/11\/26\/denver-airport-flight-cancelations-snow-dia\/\" target=\"_blank\">More than 1,000 passengers spent the night at Denver International Airport <\/a>as a snow storm pummeled the area, according to The Denver Post. There had been 474 cancelled flights and 25 delays as of 8:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, the Post reported. Denver area snow totals from overnight accumulations combined with more snow today are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/11\/26\/denver-weather-tuesday-snow-storm-blizzard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"expected to be in the 12-18 inch range (opens in a new tab)\">expected to be in the 12-18 inch range<\/a>, once the snow finally finishes up on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Traveling the highways for the holidays Tuesday has been discouraged by the Colorado Department of Transportation and the Colorado State Patrol as the winter storm moves across Colorado. It is expected to clear out by the afternoon, then another storm is forecast to hit the state Wednesday and last through the Thanksgiving weekend.<\/p>\n<p><em>Heather Jarvis contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/winter-storm-blasts-colorado-fatal-accident-on-interstate-70-near-vail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian crosses snow-covered Broadway near Colfax Ave. in downtown Denver on Tuesday morning, Nov. 26, 2019. Hyoung Chang \/ The Denver Post The snowstorm barreling across Colorado on Tuesday morning is hitting the Front Range the hardest but also impacting travel in the mountains along Interstate 70. I-70 was closed Tuesday morning in both [&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":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-801765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 00:14:57","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}