At least seven people were killed early Thursday morning after a Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) they were driving veered off a highway in northern Colorado, police said.
The vehicle was northbound when it went off the road before crashing into the slanted cement barrier and bursting into flames, Gilbert Mares, a police officer with Colorado State Patrol told reporters.
There were no survivors, he said.
"We're in the preliminary stages of this investigation and we do not know what caused this," said Mares, adding weather was not a factor.
Workers had to tear the roof off the charred SUV in order to extricate the victims, including an infant and a toddler.
Also killed were three other males and two females, but investigators don't know their ages or whether they were members of the same family.
Mares says the driver was a male and the vehicle was registered in Alberta, Canada.
Source:Xinhua
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