A man was killed and a woman was injured in a single-vehicle crash on westbound C-470 in Jefferson County on Tuesday morning, the Colorado State Patrol said.
The crash happened at 9:19 a.m. when a red Toyota SUV headed westbound on the bridge over Ken Caryl Avenue drifted to the left, went off the road and hit a guardrail, state officials said in a news release.
The driver, a 31-year-old man, and a 30-year-old woman and a 2-year-old boy were taken to the hospital after crash, and the man was pronounced dead at the hospital, according to the state patrol. The woman had non-life-threatening injuries and the toddler was not injured.
Colorado State Patrol officials initially said the woman had serious injuries and that the toddler was 3 years old and had minor injuries.
The group was traveling back to New Mexico at the time of the crash, state officials said.
Westbound C-470 was closed at the West Ken Caryl Avenue exit for two hours after the crash and
The man’s name will be released by the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office, and the state patrol’s vehicular crimes unit is investigating the crash.
