{"id":156275,"date":"2026-01-30T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156275\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:12:10","slug":"southern-california-girls-youth-hockey-team-involved-in-deadly-colorado-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156275\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern California girls youth hockey team involved in deadly Colorado crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Santa Clarita Valley community is grieving after a deadly crash in Colorado involving a local youth hockey team.<\/p>\n

Officers with the Colorado State Patrol responded to reports of\u00a0the\u00a0crash between a sprinter van and a snowplow on\u00a0a snowy stretch of\u00a0Interstate 70\u00a0about 55 miles\u00a0outside\u00a0Denver\u00a0just before 9 a.m. Thursday morning,\u00a0according to the Colorado outlet\u00a0CPR News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The sprinter van was carrying the Santa Clarita Lady Flyers 12 and under team, who were in the area for\u00a0a Western Girls Hockey League tournament, when it crashed\u00a0head-on into a California Department of Transportation snowplow.<\/p>\n

The impact of the crash was so intense that the snowplow\u2019s blade flew off and flipped the van, driven by the father of one of the girls, off the side of the interstate.<\/p>\n

\"SoCal<\/a><\/p>\n

A local girls 12 and under hockey club, the Santa Clarita Lady Fliers, was involved in a deadly crash in Colorado while attending a youth hockey tournament on Jan. 29, 2026. (CSP)<\/p>\n

First responders pronounced the\u00a0father\u00a0deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n

One of the young girls was airlifted to a nearby trauma center with critical injuries. Seven other passengers, including four kids and three adults, were\u00a0driven\u00a0to local\u00a0hospitals, CPR News reported.<\/p>\n

Three families involved in the hockey club had rented the van together to get the girls to the tournament, KTLA\u2019s Sandra Mitchell reported.<\/p>\n

\"SoCal<\/p>\n

A local girls 12 and under hockey club, the Santa Clarita Lady Fliers, was involved in a deadly crash in Colorado while attending youth hockey tournament on Jan. 29, 2026. (CSP)<\/p>\n

\"SoCal<\/p>\n

A local girls 12 and under hockey club, the Santa Clarita Lady Fliers, was involved in a deadly crash in Colorado while attending youth hockey tournament on Jan. 29, 2026. (CSP)<\/p>\n

\"SoCal<\/p>\n

A local girls 12 and under hockey club, the Santa Clarita Lady Fliers, was involved in a deadly crash in Colorado while attending youth hockey tournament on Jan. 29, 2026. (CSP)<\/p>\n

\"SoCal<\/p>\n

A local girls 12 and under hockey club, the Santa Clarita Lady Fliers, was involved in a deadly crash in Colorado while attending youth hockey tournament on Jan. 29, 2026. (CSP)<\/p>\n

\"SoCal<\/p>\n

A local girls 12 and under hockey club, the Santa Clarita Lady Fliers, was involved in a deadly crash in Colorado while attending youth hockey tournament on Jan. 29, 2026. (CSP)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt hits everybody hard, it\u2019s just so tragic. There is a child without a parent now,\u201d Santa Clarita Valley hockey mom\u00a0Kelly Lytle said. \u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0just really disheartening to think about those families.\u201d<\/p>\n

At The Cube in Valencia, the team\u2019s home facility, parents were struggling to explain the tragic crash to their daughters.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was distraught,\u201d hockey dad Serge Zarubin said of his daughter\u2019s reaction. \u201cIt\u2019s understandable. It\u2019s hard for them. It\u2019s hard on grown-ups. It\u2019s even harder for the kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prescott Littlefield, the Santa Clarita Flyers club president, called the incident a gut punch that\u2019s been difficult to process, but said that the team was being brought closer by the outpouring of support from the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had countless\u00a0people reaching out to me asking how they can help, what they can do, even rival hockey clubs,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re\u00a0just trying to be here and for the families.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the young girl airlifted to the hospital\u00a0remains\u00a0in critical condition, the four other children involved in the crash have since been released from the hospital.<\/p>\n

Of the three adults taken to the hospital, two\u00a0remain\u00a0in serious condition, while the third is said to be in fair condition.<\/p>\n

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