The Woodland Park School District has identified four of the five people who died in a two vehicle head-on crash outside of Thermopolis, Wyo., Saturday morning.
Paul Kekich , 16 , Nick Naples , 17 , and Alex Ragan , 17 , all boy scouts and students at Woodland Park High School, were among the victims from the crash, according to a district news release. Richard Kleiner, identified as a community member, also died in the accident.
The other victim, a 3-year-old, was not identified.
The teenagers were returning to the Colorado Springs area after leaving a Boy Scout camp in northwest Wyoming.
A passenger vehicle carrying the scouts was headed southbound to Colorado on Wyoming 120 around 10 a.m. when it crossed the center line and collided with a northbound motor home, according to a Wyoming Highway Patrol news release. The Billings Gazette quoted Hot Springs County Sheriff Lou Falgoust as saying the vehicle was a Honda Element and that all the passengers in the Honda were reported to be from Woodland Park.
The 3-year-old victim, who was a passenger in the motorhome, and three individuals in the Honda died on impact, according to a NBC News report. The motor home was from Florida.
The driver of the motor home was flown by Life Flight to a hospital in Billings, Mont., while three motor home passengers, and one from the passenger vehicle, were taken by ambulance to the West Park Hospital in Cody.
The individual from the passenger vehicle did not survive.
Woodland Park High School held a gathering at 10 a.m. Sunday for the community with counselors and staff present, according to a letter written by Jed Bowman , the district’s superintendent.
“We will likely open our school as a gathering place in the days to come and will provide more information once it is available,” Bowman wrote.
Erin Udell: 303-954-1223 or eudell@denverpost.com
