A crash on Thursday that took the life of a 21-year-old woman whose car fell from the cliffs on Ptarmigan Trail road onto Interstate 70 has been ruled a suicide, Summit County coroner Regan Wood said. It was the ninth death by suicide in the county this year.
The cause of the crash was not clear at the scene, but the woman was pronounced deceased immediately. Colorado State Patrol investigated the crash and found no evidence of foul play, and the coroner deemed the death intentional. The report on the death was not yet available.
A similar tragedy occurred in 2005 on Ptarmigan Trail, a dirt road that parallels the highway east of Silverthorne and climbs to steep, rocky drop-offs over I-70. In that case, a woman’s Honda Civic fell 144 feet off of the cliffs, and the coroner ruled the death a suicide.
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