Four people died after a semi-truck hauling lumber plowed into vehicles on a crowded section of Interstate 70 near Denver, causing a fire so intense that it melted the roadway and metal off of cars, authorities said Friday.
Authorities had to wait until daylight to confirm the death toll from Thursday afternoon's 28-vehicle pileup because of the devastation caused by the fire.
The driver of the truck suspected of causing the crash, Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos of Texas, has been arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide, police said. I-70 is Colorado's vital east-west highway that connects the mountains with the plains and traffic has grown worse as the state's population has boomed. The crash happened just after the highway descends from the mountains, where signs warn drivers to check to make sure their brakes are cool and working after travelling down the steep grades.
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