3 College of Wyoming swimmers killed in crash in Colorado

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Three members of the College of Wyoming swimming and diving crew have been killed in a freeway crash in northern Colorado.

The crash occurred Thursday afternoon on U.S. 287 about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of the Wyoming-Colorado line between Laramie and Fort Collins, Colorado.

The three swimmers killed within the crash have been: Charlie Clark, 19, a sophomore on the boys’s crew from Las Vegas; Luke Slabber, 21, a junior on the boys’s crew from South Africa; and Carson Muir, 18, a freshman on the ladies’s crew from Birmingham, Alabama.

The crash injured two different crew members who have been anticipated to outlive, based on a College of Wyoming assertion.

The 2 injured males, 20 and 21, have been taken to hospitals, based on a Colorado State Patrol assertion.

“My ideas and prayers are with our swimming and diving student-athletes, coaches, households and mates,” Wyoming athletic director Tom Burman stated in an announcement. “It’s tough to lose members of our College of Wyoming household, and we mourn the lack of these student-athletes. We’ve counseling providers accessible to our student-athletes and coaches in our time of want.”

The crash occurred when the driving force of the Toyota RAV4 sport utility automobile with 4 others inside swerved and went off the pavement, and the automobile rolled over a number of instances, the assertion stated.

The SUV was headed south and apparently not on an official crew journey, the patrol assertion stated.

The accident was being investigated.

“We’re heartsick on the information of this horrible tragedy for our college, our state, our student-athlete neighborhood and, most significantly, the households and mates of those younger individuals,” College of Wyoming President Ed Seidel stated within the assertion.

In 2001, a head-on crash with a drunken driver on the identical freeway killed eight members of the College of Wyoming cross-country crew. Clint Haskins, additionally a College of Wyoming pupil, swerved into the lane in entrance of the northbound sport-utility automobile.

Haskins was the one survivor of that crash 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of Laramie. He pleaded responsible to aggravated vehicular murder and was paroled after 9½ years in jail.

Data from the related Press was used on this report.