Cheyenne County Coroner Paul Schaub says he’s waiting for a final report by an accident reconstructionist on a Friday afternoon crash between an SUV and a semi in which a couple died but their young daughter survived.
51-year-old Brian Lee Johnson and his 24-year-old wife Catherine died in the collision while their 18-month-old daughter is in a Colorado hospital. Her condition is not known, nor is whether the truck driver was injured.
Schaub says the preliminary investigation indicated the Nelson were northbound on a Cheyenne County road when they failed to stop at a stop sign at a second road and were hit by the westbound semi.
The toddler was in a car seat survived, but had to be extricated from the wreckage by first responders