Rock fall shuts major Colorado highway; no word on reopening
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A rockslide in a deep and narrow Colorado canyon has indefinitely closed a major east-west highway, forcing drivers on a 140-mile detour.
A tractor-trailer rig was damaged, but no one was injured Monday night when the rocks tumbled onto Interstate 70 about 125 miles east of the Utah border. The Colorado Department of Transportation shut down traffic in both directions along 24 miles of highway, from Glenwood Springs in the west to Gypsum in the east.
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