Two youngsters on spring break from Illinois had been killed at Colorado’s Copper Mountain Ski Resort Sunday night after sledding down a half-pipe collectively and launching off a snowbank into the air.
The kids, aged 17 and 18, “got here down onerous on the onerous ice” under the half-pipe, in keeping with a Summit County Sheriff’s Division assertion, which stated they skilled “blunt power trauma.”
They obtained rapid medical consideration however couldn’t be revived and had been pronounced useless on the scene, the assertion stated.
Summit County authorities on Monday weren’t capable of say whether or not the half-pipe was closed. Sheriff’s deputies responded round 8:36 p.m., company officers stated.
The 2 teenagers “had been sliding on some kind of article collectively,” Sgt. Wanda Wilkerson stated.
Copper Mountain representatives stated they had been unable to remark.
“Our ideas and condolences exit to the households and mates of the people concerned on this tragic incident,” Summit County Sheriff Jaime FitzSimons stated within the division assertion.
The Summit County Coroner’s Workplace has taken over the investigation into the trigger and method of demise, officers stated. No different info was obtainable, they stated.
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