{"id":1318760,"date":"2020-03-16T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/5-year-old-visitor-dies-sunday-after-being-hit-by-suv-in-downtown-aspen\/"},"modified":"2020-03-16T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T06:04:00","slug":"5-year-old-visitor-dies-sunday-after-being-hit-by-suv-in-downtown-aspen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/5-year-old-visitor-dies-sunday-after-being-hit-by-suv-in-downtown-aspen\/","title":{"rendered":"5-year-old visitor dies Sunday after being hit by SUV in downtown Aspen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aspen Police taped off the area around the intersection of South Galena Street and East Hyman Avenue after a pedestrian-vehicle accident took place Sunday afternoon. <\/strong>
Maddie Vincent\/The Aspen Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

A 5-year-old girl visiting Aspen died Sunday as a result of her injuries after being struck by a vehicle near the intersection of South Galena Street and East Hyman Avenue, Aspen Police confirmed.<\/p>\n

Just after 6 p.m. Sunday, Assistant Chief Bill Linn said in a news release that a 2018 GMC Acadia registered in the Aspen area had turned left from Galena Street onto Hyman Avenue when it struck the young girl.<\/p>\n

She was pronounced dead at Aspen Valley Hospital at 1 p.m. The girl\u2019s name and hometown will be released by the Pitkin County Coroner\u2019s Office, which was still investigating her death Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

Linn said in the release that the driver was not taken into custody and Colorado State Patrol is assisting with the accident investigation, which is ongoing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe ask the community to respect the privacy of the grieving family,\u201d the news release states. \u201cWe are broken-hearted for all involved and ask everyone in our community to hold each other close in this challenging time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fatal accident occurred around 12:30 p.m. Police had taped off the area around the scene by 12:50 p.m., where the white GMC Acadia was parked in the intersection adjacent to Ute Mountaineer and Marcus.<\/p>\n

Officers were taking photos beneath the vehicle and some appeared visibly shaken up.<\/p>\n

Linn said Aspen Police do not anticipate releasing any further information about the accident Sunday evening but may release more as investigation continues.<\/p>\n

Witnesses who observed the fatal accident are requested to call the Aspen Police Department at 970-920-5400.<\/p>\n

The news release also encouraged people in need of support to seek assistance at many of the area providers listed at aspenstrong.org, including Mind Springs Health at 970-920-5555 and the Hope Center at 970-925-5858.<\/p>\n

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Aspen Police taped off the area around the intersection of South Galena Street and East Hyman Avenue after a pedestrian-vehicle accident took place Sunday afternoon. Maddie Vincent\/The Aspen Times A 5-year-old girl visiting Aspen died Sunday as a result of her injuries after being struck by a vehicle near the intersection of South Galena Street […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-04 07:31:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}