A man died Saturday after the sewage truck he was driving ran off of a road in Boulder Canyon and crashed into the side of a mountain.
The one-vehicle crash happened at 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 Highway 119 in a 1997 Freightliner tanker truck containing sewage when it crashed, Hahn said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
A small amount of liquid sewage seeped from the truck after the accident and the highway was shut down to one lane.
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 Highway 93 and Colorado Highway 72.
Authorities later opened the highway to one lane.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.
