FATAL ROLLOVER ON BIG I FLYOVER FRIDAY

Afatal rollover on a Big I flyover just after 2 p.m. Friday caused major backups for a couple of hours, especially for motorists and truckers on the westbound Interstate 40 leg of the overpass.

New Mexico State Police posted about the closure on Twitter around 2:20 p.m. They posted that it was reopened around 4:30 p.m.

No information was immediately available about injuries or how the crash occurred.

JIM THOMPSON/JOURNAL New Mexico State Police investigators work the scene of a fatal rollover accident on a Big I flyover Friday.

Emergency personnel block off the flyover from westbound Interstate 40 to southbound Interstate 25 following a fatal rollover crash Friday.