Three University of Wyoming Swimmers Killed in Car Accident
Three swimmers from the University of Wyoming were killed in a car accident in northern Colorado on Thursday.
The athletes were involved in a single-vehicle accident on U.S. 287 in Larimore County, northwest of the city of Livermore. The accident occurred at 2:45 p.m. Two other individuals are dealing with injuries from the crash, according to the Casper Star-Tribune.
The accident occurred some 40 miles south of Wyoming’s campus in Laramie.
Names of the swimmers were not released, pending notification of their families. They were only identified as being age 18, 19 and 21, by the Colorado State Patrol.
Wyoming’s women’s swim team is currently on the second day of the Mountain West Conference Championships at Houston’s CRWC Natatorium. The men’s team is due to take part in the Western Athletic Conference Championships next week in Pharr, Texas.
According to the Star-Tribune, this is the fourth fatal vehicle accident involving University of Wyoming athletes in the last 25 years, all of them occurring in the general vicinity of campus. Eight cross country runners died in an accident in 2001, while a football player died in 2010 and a track and field athlete last July. Three of the incidents have occurred on U.S. 287.
Story will be updated as more information becomes available.
