Two Grand County residents sustained critical injuries after traveling through an aqueduct pipe in Winter Park on Saturday and had to be airlifted from the scene.<\/p>\n
Police responded to a call of a woman found with a broken leg and facial trauma in the canal east of the Lakota Subdivision around 1:50 today, according to a press release from the Fraser Winter Park Police Department.<\/p>\n
Officers also found a man unresponsive in the water, around 200 yards north of where the woman was found in the canal that parallels Forest Service Road 128.<\/p>\n
Both the man and woman were taken by helicopter to St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood.<\/p>\n
According to the press release, the man and woman are believed to have been swimming in the canal close to the entrance of an aqueduct pipe.<\/p>\n
Somehow they ended up traveling about 100 yards through the duct to where it dumps out into the lower canal, sustaining severe trauma.<\/p>\n
Evidence on scene suggests alcohol may have been a contributing factor.<\/p>\n
Police are not releasing the names of the victims because the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n
Responding agencies included the Fraser Winter Park Police Department, the Grand County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Grand County EMS and East Grand Fire.<\/p>\n