Police are investigating a blazing crash that happened early this morning on Interstate 270 at the Chain of Rocks Bridge. An 18 wheeler loaded with car parts exploded in flames around 5 a.m. Wednesday. Nearly ten hours after the accident, late Wednesday afternoon, authorities re-opened all lanes.
Police say the truck driver first hit and killed a man who was pushing his car across the bridge in the morning darkness. The first two calls for a stalled motorist on the Chain of Rocks bridge came in at 4:47 Wednesday morning, but first responders were mistakenly dispatched to Interstate 70 and Riverview, not the correct location of Interstate 270 and Riverview. It was five minutes later when dispatchers received additional calls and re-directed police officers to the correct location.
Dave Romero saw the big rig swerve, "Saw the truck hit over the concrete divider burst into flames we jumped out." Romero and others rushed to help the truck driver. Romero said, "We had to almost jerk him out of the truck the guy wanted to go back we brought him back again he started screaming I killed him I killed him we tried to get him calmed down."
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