Investigators closed the book Monday on an Aug. 2 head-on crash that killed two people and gravely injured another, without determining a cause.
Richard Hogsett, 36, of Littleton inexplicably crossed the divided median on South Santa Fe Drive near West Belleview Avenue and sped his Mercedes-Benz into oncoming traffic on that Saturday morning.
He hit a car driven by Kelly Horan, a 26-year-old nurse on her way home from a 12-hour shift at Porter Adventist Hospital. She has been hospitalized since for head injuries and “breaking nearly every bone in the right side of her body,” her father, Richard Horan, said Monday.
Hogsett’s black sedan went airborne and landed on a car driven by 27-year-old hairdresser Neva Mondragon. Both died instantly.
“Everything out at the scene would indicate this was intentional,” said Lt. Charles Broadhead said of the crash. “But there’s nothing in this man’s background . . . nothing in his toxicology report to indicate this was anything more than a horrible accident.”
Hogsett was on his way to a meeting, and minutes before the crash he had called a friend to ask him to pick up a coffee order, Broadhead said.
Efforts to reach Hogsett’s family since the crash have been unsuccessful. He was the father of four, engaged to be married and had no record of traffic offenses or crimes.
Mondragon’s family was not immediately available Monday.
Mondragon was on her way to have her nails done at the salon where she worked in Littleton. She was to have been married in October.
Joey Bunch: 303-954-1174 or jbunch@denverpost.com
