One Person Dead in Car Crash on Colorado National Monument
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One person has sadly passed away in a car crash on the Colorado National Monument in Grand Junction. The Colorado National Monument released that a 30-year-old man was found dead, according to KKCO.
The Colorado National Monument believes that the 30-year-old man passed away on the night of January 10th in a car crash. The car crash was found by someone on foot, who found the wreckage on the east hill of the monument, according to KKCO.
Sadly, the 30-year-old man was found dead in the crash. The Colorado National Monument has established that the 30-year-old was the only person in the vehicle. According to KKCO, the vehicle is being removed from the crash location today, January 12, 2020.
2020 will easily see the highest death total the county has ever recorded, Mesa County Coroner Victor Yahn said.
âLast year was record-breaking and this year we will beat that by 100 (coroner) calls,â he said.
As of Friday, the Mesa County Coronerâs Office has been on 840 death calls so far this year. Last year, the office had 787 total calls for the year. The number of death calls does not represent all the fatalities that occur in the county.
The culprit for the uptick in deaths is no mystery. Mesa County Public Health numbers on Saturday noted that 83 people with COVID-19 have died in Mesa County since the pandemic began, 62 directly from the disease. The county tracks deaths in two ways; deaths among COVID-19 cases and deaths due to COVID-19. The former category includes deaths for those who tested positive for the virus, but who may have died from other complications. The later category is limited specifically to deaths from the coronavirus.