{"id":2451596,"date":"2019-11-26T08:22:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=316698"},"modified":"2019-11-26T08:22:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:22:08","slug":"winter-storm-blasts-colorado-fatal-accident-on-interstate-70-near-vail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/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=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/IMG_2374-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/IMG_2374-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/IMG_2374-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/IMG_2374-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/IMG_2374-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/IMG_2374-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Crews clear the Aspen pedestrian mall early Tuesday morning.<\/strong><br \/><em>David Krause \/ The Aspen Times<\/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 and those using the Aspen airport.<\/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, <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\" aria-label=\"according to the Vail Daily (opens in a new tab)\">according to the Vail Daily<\/a> 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>Flights were starting to get canceled or delayed Tuesday morning, and travelers should check <a href=\"http:\/\/aspenairport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"aspenairport.com (opens in a new tab)\">aspenairport.com<\/a> or confirm with their airlines.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><\/figure>\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>Around Aspen, roads early Thursday morning were snowpacked and Aspen Skiing Co. reported 5 inches of snow as of 5 a.m. The snow is forecast to continue in Aspen and Snowmass through the morning.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story that will be updated. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/winter-storm-blasts-colorado-fatal-accident-on-interstate-70-near-vail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crews clear the Aspen pedestrian mall early Tuesday morning.David Krause \/ The Aspen Times 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 and those using the Aspen airport. I-70 was closed Tuesday morning in both directions due to [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 04:51:26","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}