4 teens killed, 2 injured in crash on Colorado’s plains

WILEY, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say four teenagers died and two other people were hospitalized after an SUV the teens were riding in was hit by a semitrailer on Colorado’s rural southeastern plains. The Colorado State Patrol said a Ford Explorer carrying five teens went through a stop sign at a county road intersecting with U.S. Highway 287 and was hit by the northbound truck, near the small town of Wiley, Wednesday night. The teens killed ranged in age from 15 to 16. A 16-year-old boy in the SUV and a man in the sleeping berth of the truck were both taken to the hospital. Drugs and alcohol aren’t suspected of causing the crash.