Accident Hwy 285 SB between Blackfoot Rd and Kings Valley Dr

CDOT Verified account @ColoradoDOT 7 minutes ago
US 285 SB: Crash between Blackfoot Rd and Kings Valley Dr. Long delays expected between Conifer and Pine Junction.

The view in our Elk Creek Fire webcam:


CDOT webcam view at Shaffer's Crossing:

ECFPD asked for traffic to be held, they had been alternating allowing NB and SB traffic through.

Flight For Life is en route so the highway is completely shut down.

Per Eric Hedricks on our Facebook Page:
People are now trying to get around it by useing foxton rd to the river and 126, but there is a car off foxton with a tow truck, and a truck off the river road 3/4 mile east of greens

Lanes are opening up and traffic moving again.

All emergency personnel cleared from scene, command terminated.