FRANKTOWN, Colo. — Five people were killed, including three children, in a crash on a Colorado highway on Monday, authorities said.

The crash happened just after 4:30 p.m. when the driver of a Toyota Matrix, which had been reported stolen about an hour earlier, lost control in the Franktown area south of Denver, the Colorado State Patrol said in a news release.

The Toyota went off the right shoulder, then returned to the roadway and rolled onto the northbound lane, where it hit a northbound Ford Fusion head-on. The 31-year-old man Denver man who was driving the Toyota was ejected when the vehicle started to roll and he died on the scene, the state patrol said.

Five children ranging in age from 8 to 14, all from Colorado Springs, were traveling in the Ford. Three of the children and the

See Full Page