It was a bad start to the morning commute with a fatal accident on US 36. The accident happened near the 80th Ave bridge a little after midnight. Initially, a car going eastbound was involved in a single car accident. The 2 people in that vehicle got out of the car and were in the road when they were struck by a semi truck which was also traveling eastbound on the highway. One person died at the scene. A second person was transported to St. Anthony Central Hospital with unknown injuries. The WB lanes opened before 5 a.m. the EB lanes opened at 5:40 a.m.

Lone Tree is the latest city to install red light cameras. They will install the system on Lincoln Ave at Park Meadows Drive and at Yosemite at Park Meadows Center Drive. Red light cams are already used in Denver, Aurora, Greenwood Village, Boulder and Fort Collins. The system should be operational by June 1st.

What a busy late rush hour. The 7 a.m. hour was plagued with accidents on I-76, I-25, I-70 and 6th Ave. Traffic south on I -25 from 120th into downtown was one of the worst commutes in a long time. I-225 was exta slow as drivers used it to get around the Cherry Creek Dam Road closure.

There will be a full closure of the ramp from East Bound US 36 to North Bound I-25 tonight to do street light repair. The work starts at 11 p.m. and ends at 5 a.m. Thursday morning.

There will also be a full closure in Golden of East Bound Highway 58 between Washington and McIntyre for bridge work. The work starts at 9:30 and ends 5 am Thursday.

It was very quiet today on the drive. The biggest factor was the sun glare. The few accidents that we had were not to bad and were cleaned up fairly quickly. Once again the Cherry Creek Dam Road was closed making I-225 heavier than normal. You should be able to use it tomorrow.

There were a few accidents today. The worst happened around 7:35 a.m. on North Bound Parker Road at I-225. They had all lanes blocked to help with a rollover crash involving 2 cars and a box truck. One of the cars flipped over and there were some people hurt in the crash. All traffic was diverted off Parker Road and onto the interstate and traffic was backed up before Quincy. West Bound Hampden was backed up to before Chambers.

The other big one was around 6:30 a.m. along North Bound I-25 at Lincoln Ave. when a car flipped over and was blocking the right side of the highway. It backed up traffic to nearly Castle Rock.

The Cherry Creek Dam Road is still closed today and tomorrow too for a maintenance project. It will reopen Wednesday morning at 5 a.m.

I have an announcement to make. From now on when I’m reading a story that has just been added to the newscast and it includes a really hard name to pronounce I’m going to replace the name. Yep, rather than getting that deer in the headlights look and struggling through a name that only one other person in the western hemisphere has heard of, I’m going to just skip it. It will work something like this:“Also overseas today, NATO officials say they’re one step closure to identifying the suspect or suspects in last week’s oil tanker explosion that was intended to send a message to Uzbekistan’s Prime Minister…(short pause)… Matt Damon.” You see how much better that would be for the both of us? Anytime there’s a strange name that no one would know anyway, rather than me trying to look cool by saying it really confidently, I’ll just replace it with: Matt Damon.

By the way, Uzbekistan’s prime minister is Shavkat Mirziyoyev. I haven’t the slightest idea how to pronounce his name. But I do know that he replaced Utkir Sultanov in December of 2003.