{"id":45404,"date":"2017-09-30T05:35:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T05:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=45404"},"modified":"2017-09-30T05:35:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T05:35:33","slug":"3-killed-suv-crashes-bear-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/3-killed-suv-crashes-bear-70.html","title":{"rendered":"3 Killed When SUV Crashes Into Bear On I-70"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">3 Killed When SUV Crashes Into Bear On I-70<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">3 Killed When SUV Crashes Into Bear On I-70:- Three people, including a child and teen, were killed when their SUV hit a 300-pound bear on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Investigators with the Colorado State Patrol say seven people in the car were all ejected, none of them were wearing seat belts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The crash happened early Friday morning on Interstate 70 near Rifle. Emergency crews rushed the surviving members of the family to area hospitals. A 9-year-old boy was flown to Children\u2019s Hospital in Aurora.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cUnfortunately, we see accidents like this across Colorado,\u201d Mike Porras with Colorado Parks and Wildlife said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Porras says animal collisions are a problem that come hand-in-hand with living in Colorado.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">They continuously work with the Colorado Department of Transportation on a number of safety projects to help reduce these type of accidents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Highway 9 near Kremmling is one of those examples but Porras says it is also up to the driver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cTake some preventive measures to avoid a wildlife collision such as involving everyone in the vehicle with scanning the road sides,\u201d Porras said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The people who were killed were all from New Castle. They were identified as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Kimberly Hernandez, 7<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Brizeyda (aka Brizeida) Hernandez, 15<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Eugenio Hernandez Altamirano, 63<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Porras says the bear was also killed in Friday\u2019s collision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/denver.cbslocal.com\/2017\/09\/29\/deadly-crash-i-70-bear-rifle\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/3-killed-suv-crashes-bear-70.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Killed When SUV Crashes Into Bear On I-70 3 Killed When SUV Crashes Into Bear On I-70:- Three people, including a child and teen, were killed when their SUV hit a 300-pound bear on Friday. 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