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Pickup towing lumber crashes, bursts into flames on I-70 (KYSL Radio)

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A heavy-duty pickup towing a load of lumber crashed and caught fire this morning on westbound I-70, sending one man to the hospital and closing the interstate for nearly four-and-a-half hours. Summit Fire and EMS confirms a one-ton dually pickup with a gooseneck trailer was leaving the Eisenhower-Johnson Tunnels around 6:50 a.m. when it smashed into a pair of semi-trucks. It came to rest on a guardrail, where the pickup and its lumber caught fire. Read more ...