Crashes and Disasters

Commerce City police believe the pickup truck crashed into the back of the semitrailer on Colorado 2, killing the pickup truck driver.

An injured UTV rider was rescued Friday from a rocky embankment in Colorado’s mountains after losing control of the side-by-side vehicle, according to Grand County officials.

A 38-year-old man was arrested in a Thornton hit-and-run that killed a motorcyclist last week, police announced Wednesday.

I-76 was closed in both directions for a crash between Hillrose and Merino, east of Brush, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.

Colorado State Patrol troopers responded shortly after 2:30 a.m. Sunday to the fatal three-vehicle crash at mile marker 93 on westbound I-70, near Rifle.

A teenager riding an electric scooter died when a man driving a Tesla struck him in Lakewood last month.

Chase Murphy, 18, was arrested in a crash that killed his passenger, 18-year-old Talon Gustafson, Tuesday evening in Parker, police said.

The man killed in the crash, identified by the Douglas County Coroner’s Office as Talon Gustafson, was thrown from the car near Mainstreet and Motsenbocker Road in Parker.

Two men died when their single-engine plane crashed in a remote area of the San Juan Mountains near Telluride on Thursday.

Law enforcement officers were searching Tuesday for the driver in a hit-and-run crash that killed a motorcyclist north of Denver on Monday, CSP said.