CSU-Pueblo student killed in Interstate 25 crash
Posted: 11.25.2008 at 2:59 PM
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COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) -- A 19-year-old Colorado Springs woman has been issued a summons for careless driving resulting in death after a crash on Interstate 25 killed her passenger.

Police say Dezirae Shier-Gill was the driver of a car that slammed into the back of a disabled semi-truck on the shoulder of I-25 in central Colorado Springs just before noon Monday. Investigators say Shier-Gill had been talking with her passenger, 19-year-old Wade Lehman, got distracted, and drifted onto the shoulder.

The car flipped over. Lehman was pronounced dead at the scene. Shier-Gill was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Lehman was a 2008 graduate of Coronado High School and was a freshman at Colorado State University-Pueblo, where he was a wrestler.

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