DENVER (KDVR) -- A truck exploded and caught fire Sunday night after crashing as it exited Interstate 76, sending the driver to the hospital, according to Adams County Fire Rescue.

Adams County and Westminster fire crews responded to a crash at about 9:30 p.m. near I-76 and Tennyson Street, where a truck traveling at a high rate of speed west on the interstate exited, hit a guardrail and landed below the overpass, Adams County Fire Rescue said in a Facebook post.

The crash resulted in the explosion and subsequent fire, ACFR said.

Bystanders jumped in and pulled the driver from the burning vehicle, then began CPR. The driver was then taken to a hospital.