I-70 to remain closed until Saturday following crash in DVR

Yep, the accident in front caused the back-ups where this one occurred.

There is about 3 miles of mostly flat interstate from where the "real" hills end and where this firey crash happened. The last run-away ramp is several miles before this.

I am going to toss out a theory that he came down the mountain, lost the brakes somewhere and did not know it, kept cruising at a good clip until traffic back-up and then realized the Oh,S moment ...but at that point it was too late.

If a fully laden truck hit the flats at say 75MPH and had no brakes, could one "coast" down to a manageable speed in 3 miles?

on edit:
4 people killed in fiery crash on I-70

Lakewood Police Department Agent Ty Countryman: "He (Aguilera-Mederos) loses control of the vehicle coming down I-70," said Countryman. "He can't stop, doesn't stop and he ends up colliding with several cars and as a result of that, the fire ensues and we have what everybody saw from the videos."