Dec 25, 2007 6:46 pm US/Mountain
3 Cited For Driving Too Fast In Parr Family Crash
DENVER (AP) ―
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John Parr, 59, a political consultant, his wife, journalist Sandra Widener, 53, and daughter Chase, 19, were killed after their car was hit by a tractor-trailer near Rawlins, Wyo. Dauther Katy, 17, survived.
CBS
Three drivers were cited for driving too fast for conditions in the chain reaction crash that killed three members of a Denver family on Interstate 80 in Wyoming.
John Parr, 59, the founding director of Colorado Common Cause who later advised mayors and governors, died in the crash near Rawlins Saturday with his wife Sandra Widener, a co-founder of Westword, and daughter Chase, 19. Their 17-year-old daughter, Katy, was the only survivor. She was in stable condition Tuesday night and out of the intensive care unit at Wyoming Medical Center.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol said the roadway was icy and strong winds had created ground blizzard conditions, reducing visibility. The patrol said Parr lost control of his Subaru station wagon and his car slid around sideways on the road.
According to the accident report, Angela Seeley, 42, of Colorado Springs, Colo., then saw the Subaru sliding into her lane and swerved to miss it but she clipped the front of the Parr vehicle, which was in the middle of the roadway. Seeley then hit the rear of state snowplow driven by Johnny F. Woolner, 54, of Rawlins.
Robert Maxwell, 46, of Douglas, Wyo., swerved and missed the Parr vehicle but then rear-ended Seeley's car. Then a tractor-trailer driven by William Bowers, 58, of Bremerton, Wash., struck Parr's vehicle broadside on the driver's side.
Seeley, Maxwell and Bowers were all cited for driving too fast for conditions.
A second crash involving seven vehicles occurred about 5 miles behind the Parr crash, the patrol said. Two people were treated and released from the hospital as a result.
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