{"id":2458258,"date":"2020-05-10T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/man-killed-when-truck-goes-into-eagle-river-near-dotsero\/"},"modified":"2020-05-10T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T18:24:00","slug":"man-killed-when-truck-goes-into-eagle-river-near-dotsero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/man-killed-when-truck-goes-into-eagle-river-near-dotsero\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed when truck goes into Eagle River near Dotsero"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"28.469760900141\">\n<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.5357142857143\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-325542-33\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled gallery-container\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/TruckerFatality-vdn-050920-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/TruckerFatality-vdn-050920-1-1024x576.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Gypsum Fire Protection District | The driver of this truck was pronounced dead at the scene Friday morning. His truck went off the eastbound lane of I-70 west of Dotsero and into the Eagle River.\" class=\"swift-gallery-slide h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>The driver of this truck was pronounced dead at the scene Friday morning. His truck went off the eastbound lane of I-70 west of Dotsero and into the Eagle River.<\/strong><br \/>Gypsum Fire Protection District<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/TruckerFatality-vdn-050920-1-1024x576.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"The driver of this truck was pronounced dead at the scene Friday morning. His truck went off the eastbound lane of I-70 west of Dotsero and into the Eagle River.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/TruckerFatality-vdn-050920-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/TruckerFatality-vdn-050920-1-1-1024x768.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Randy Wyrick | randy@vaildaily.com | One lane of eastbound I-70 near Dotsero was closed for several hours Friday as heavy wreckers worked to pull the truck out of the river.\" class=\"swift-gallery-slide h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>One lane of eastbound I-70 near Dotsero was closed for several hours Friday as heavy wreckers worked to pull the truck out of the river.<\/strong><br \/>Randy Wyrick | randy@vaildaily.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/TruckerFatality-vdn-050920-1-1-1024x768.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"One lane of eastbound I-70 near Dotsero was closed for several hours Friday as heavy wreckers worked to pull the truck out of the river.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/man-killed-when-truck-goes-into-eagle-river-near-dotsero\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/man-killed-when-truck-goes-into-eagle-river-near-dotsero\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A 62-year-old Denver man was pronounced dead at the scene after the truck he was driving wound up in the Eagle River near Dotsero on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Around 7:52 a.m. Friday, the driver eased off the eastbound lane of Interstate 70 west of Dotsero. He did not turn off the road abruptly, according to law enforcement officials who arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The box truck rolled through the fence near the highway and over several yards of grass before plunging into the Eagle River. Authorities are unsure if the deceased died at the wheel and drove into the Eagle River or drove into the Eagle River and died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The man\u2019s identity had not been released Friday pending notification of his next of kin, Eagle County Coroner Kara Bettis said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Officers at the scene thought someone might be alive after the crash and called for a water rescue. One of the rescuers took a jet ski into the river.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The lane of eastbound I-70 was closed for several hours as wreckers worked to pull the truck out of the river.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"11.303082191781\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-7 pt-3 pb-4 at-4 pl-4\" readability=\"19.164371772806\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers around Aspen and Snowmass Village make the Aspen Times\u2019 work possible. Your financial contribution supports our efforts to deliver quality, locally relevant journalism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now more than ever, your support is critical to help us keep our community informed about the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the impact it is having locally. 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His truck went off the eastbound lane of I-70 west of Dotsero and into the Eagle River.Gypsum Fire Protection District One lane of eastbound I-70 near Dotsero was closed for several hours Friday as heavy wreckers worked to pull the truck out [&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-2458258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-17 17:36:13","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\/2458258","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=2458258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}