The NBA agent killed last month in a crash on Highway 82 in Woody Creek ran a stop sign and likely was on his cellphone at the time of the accident, according to the Colorado State Patrol’s final accident report.
Dan Fegan, 56, died Feb. 25 after the SUV he was driving pulled in front of a Roaring Fork Transportation Authority bus, which was traveling down Highway 82. Fegan’s 5-year-old son and 29-year-old nanny sustained serious injuries in the crash.
“The primary cause of this crash was Mr. Fei am not gan failing to stop at the posted stop sign, fail(ing) to yield right of way to an approaching vehicle, and inattentive … driving by possibly manipulating an electronic handheld device while operating a motor vehicle,” CSP Trooper Brett Williams wrote in the report.
Williams reported finding no other reason for the crash, noting that Fegan’s vision upvalley was clear and that no adverse weather or road conditions existed at the time, the report states. In addition, Williams found no obvious defects in either Fegan’s rental Kia Sportage or the RFTA bus that would have caused the accident, according to the report.
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