One person died and another was hospitalized after a vehicle and a tanker truck crashed on Colorado's main east-west highway near Denver on Thursday, sending up a fireball and a huge plume of black smoke, authorities said.
The crash happened on the westbound Interstate 70 near Morrison, 18 miles (30 kilometers) west of Denver, where the highway begins its climb into the mountains. It wasn't immediately known what caused the crash or what the tanker was carrying, but clean-up efforts are expected to keep the highway closed in both directions through the afternoon, the Colorado Department of Transportation said.
