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Crash through several yards and into home kills teenager

By Logan Smith

September 17, 2023 / 3:49 PM MDT / CBS Colorado

A 17-year-old driver died early Sunday morning when a vehicle crashed through several fences and yards before hitting a house.

The Lakewood Police Department started receiving calls from residents in the area of South Jellison Court and West Kentucky Drive shortly after midnight.

The teenager was found dead inside the vehicle. LPD did not release the teenager's identity.

Damage to fences reveals the path taken by a vehicle that wrecked in a residential area of Lakewood shortly after midnight Sunday. A 17-year-old driver was killed in the crash. CBS

No one was inside the home at the time the car struck it, and no other injuries have been reported.

LPD investigators do not believe there were any passengers inside the vehicle when it crashed.

An LPD spokesman told CBS News Colorado that its investigators are trying to determine if speed, alcohol, or drugs were a contributing factor in the crash. He confirmed the vehicle was not stolen.

Logan Smith

Logan Smith is an assignment desk editor at CBS Colorado in Denver with more than 30 years of journalism experience in digital, television and print media.