Overview
- CSP says a CDOT snowplow lost control on Jan. 29, crossed the median near the Eisenhower Tunnel and struck a Ford Transit van carrying members of the Santa Clarita Lady Flyers, sending it down an embankment.
- The van’s driver, 38-year-old Manuel Alejandro Lorenzana Villegas of Chatsworth, California, was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Ten people were in the van; eight were hospitalized, including five juveniles with one airlifted, and most have since been released while at least one parent remains hospitalized.
- The team chose to continue competing in Littleton and won the Western Girls Hockey League 12U championship over the weekend before returning to California.
- The Colorado State Patrol is leading the investigation with no citations or arrests reported, and community fundraisers for victims and the family have raised over $120,000.