GREELEY, Colo. — Loved ones are mourning the loss of a Greeley couple who was killed in a head-on crash on Sept. 15.
Sandy and Lloyd O’Dowd were heading westbound to Greeley from Fleming with their 18-year-old daughter, Angel, when they were hit head-on by a eastbound driver who was trying to pass a group of vehicles. The O’Dowds were then rear-ended by a third vehicle.
CSP officials said an 18-year-old man driving a Mitsubishi Eclipse caused the crash just before 8 p.m. on U.S. Highway 34 near Wiggins.
“They were both killed on impact or very close to it. Angel was pulled out by a person who lives on the property where the accident happened,” said Ezekiel Lira, who lost his parents in the crash. “They heard Angel in the backseat and were surprised because there was virtually no back seat. She was in the one spot in the car where she could’ve possibly survived and did.”
Family of Sandy and Lloyd O’Dowd Angel is recovering from physical and emotional injuries.
“My physical injuries are expected to make a full recovery. My mental [injuries] will take some time,” she said. “I broke my hip and had hip surgery, fractured some of the little spine bones in my back, my pelvic bone. There’s scratches and bruises all over me, its bad but ironically could have been much worse.”