Sunday, March 13, 2011

Two Killed in Friday Crash Identified

Two Morgan County residents were killed in a crash in Fort Morgan on Friday morning. Investigators identified the victims as the driver, 16 year old Justin Moss of Wiggins and one passenger, 22 year old Michael Aguirre from Fort Morgan. The other passenger is 18 year old William Mull of Fort Morgan. He was airlifted to Swedish Medical Center in Denver, but there's no information on his condition. Police said the crash happened when the pick up the three were in slammed into a parked railroad car at the end of Prospect Street, which dead ends at the end of a rail yard in Fort Morgan early Friday morning. Workers at the rail yard found the crash scene when they got to work just before 7 a.m, Friday and called police. Police said the figure Moss was speeding and didn't even brake before the truck hit the rail car that was fill 200 thousand pounds of grain, as the rail car was partially derailed.