UPDATE: The teens killed in a sledding accident have been identified as Dylan Bazzell and Drew Fehr, both seniors at Prairie Central High School in Fairbury, Illinois.
The half-pipe at Colorado’s Copper Mountain Ski Resort where two sledding teens on spring break from Illinois were killed was off limits, company officials told The Denver Post on Tuesday, declaring safety to be their company’s top priority.sledding together
on a single device through the constructed tubular half-pipe Sunday evening when they launched off a snowbank into the air, then landed hard on hard ice below the half-pipe, according to a statement from Summit County sheriff’s deputies who went to the scene. The two received immediate medical attention but could not be revived and were pronounced dead.
On Tuesday, county officials identified the teens as Dylan Bazzell and Drew Fehr, both seniors at Prairie Central High School in Fairbury, Illinois. They were members of Prairie Central’s basketball and football teams and apparently had hiked up to the larger of Copper Mountain’s half-pipes, a feature designed for competitions with a steep drop-off at the bottom, Summit County Coroner’s Office spokesman David Rossi said.
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