Rock Slide Closes I-70 in Colorado

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A 17-mile stretch of Interstate 70 has been closed in western Colorado after a rock slide punched gaping holes in a bridge and left huge boulders on the highway.

The Colorado Department of Transportation says the slide struck at about midnight Sunday near the Hanging Lake Tunnel in Glenwood Canyon, a deep and narrow chasm about 110 miles west of Denver.

No injuries were reported.

Both lanes are closed from Glenwood Springs east to the town of Dotsero.

CDOT spokeswoman Stacy Stegman says initial reports indicate the slide left two large holes in a westbound bridge, one of them about 10 feet by 20 feet. She says eastbound and westbound lanes are blocked by boulders, some the size of a tractor-trailer rig.

AP