Three people died in a fiery crash at the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel that shut down part of Interstate 70 for more than 12 hours on Sunday, according to the Colorado State Patrol.

A semitrailer went off the right side of westbound I-70 west of the tunnel while approaching a curve early Sunday morning, swerved back onto the road, struck the center concrete barrier and rolled, according to a news release from the state patrol. The vehicle became “fully engulfed” in flames while rolling.

State patrol officials said the victims included a 37-year-old woman and a 39-year-old man from Deming, New Mexico, and a 9-year-old girl from Jacksonville, Florida. Investigators did not say how the trio was related.

All three died at the scene of the crash.

It took investigators hours to deter

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