2 Semi Trucks Crash On Southbound I-25, Causing Traffic Mess
DENVER (CBS4) - Two semi-trucks jack-knifed Tuesday morning on southbound Interstate 25 near Plum Creek Parkway, just south of Castle Rock.
Amy Ford, spokesperson for the Colorado Department of Transportation, said as a result there was a full closure of that southbound I-25 corridor.
Drivers stuck behind the accident were at a full stop and delays followed. The trucks were still on the road as of 6:30 a.m. while crews made their way out.
Southbound lanes of I-25 were closed for two hours at Plum Creek Parkway. Those lanes reopened by 7:30 a.m., but drivers remained stranded in the slow conditions. Several cars had also spun out on the off-ramp.
"I've been waiting here for about two hours and I took this way around but they just brought me all the way back around to I-25," said one driver.
Castle Rock had 22 snowplows working to clear six to 10 inches of snow from the roads.
Blizzard conditions forced I-25 to close from Walsenburg all the way to New Mexico, and from Monument to Castle Rock in the southbound direction.
Both directions of Interstate 70 were closed from Burlington to Denver until Tuesday afternoon when I-70 reopened between Limon and E-470.