A man died Saturday after the sewage truck he was driving ran off a road in Boulder Canyon and crashed into the side of a mountain.
The one-vehicle crash happened about 2:45 p.m. near Boulder Falls, said Sgt. John Hahn, a Colorado State Patrol spokesman.
The driver, who was not identified, was heading east on Colorado 119 in a 1997 Freightliner tanker truck containing sewage when it crashed, Hahn said.
The truck was operated by Columbia Sanitary Services in Golden and used to empty residential septic tanks.
A small amount of liquid sewage seeped from the truck after the accident.
The crash affected busy, late-afternoon traffic going to and from the Eldora Mountain Resort. The highway was shut down in both directions and traffic was routed to Colorado 93 and Colorado 72.
Authorities temporarily opened the highway to one lane, but then closed the road again from 7 to 8 p.m. to do more work at the accident scene.
The road was completely open by 8:30 p.m.
