15-year-old among 2 killed after van rolls

WELD COUNTY - Two people, including a child, were killed on Monday in an accident that shut Interstate 76 down for more than two hours near Hudson.

The Weld County Sheriff's Office says a 1995 Chevrolet van was heading west when the right rear tire blew and it went off the road around 11 a.m. It struck a post and then spun around before rolling over one and a half times.

Two of the four people in the van, both children, weren't wearing seat belts and were thrown from the van.

A passenger who was wearing a seat belt, 50-year-old Querubin Castaneda-Sanchez of Commerce City was pronounced dead at the scene.

One of the teenagers, 15-year-old Giovanni Castaneda of Commerce City, was airlifted to Denver Health Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

The two other people injured, the driver, 51-year-old Isabel Estrada and 12-year-old Jonathon Castaneda, both of Commerce City, were both injured. Estrada was taken to the Northern Colorado Medical Center and Jonathon was taken to The Children's Hospital by ambulance.

A Weld County Sheriff's Deputy was also injured in another accident, with a dump truck, on the way to the crash.

The deputy was taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

Both accidents are being investigated.