Toddler dies in submerged car after crash near Brush

A -year-old girl died last week when a car crashed into an irrigation ditch near Brush in Morgan County according to the Colorado State Patrol Shortly after midnight on Thursday April state patrol troopers responded to a car that had crashed on Morgan County Road S and rolled into a water-filled ditch according to a news release from the agency The driver an unidentified -year-old woman was headed eastbound on Morgan County Road S near Hazel Street in Brush with two children in the backseat when she drove off the side of the road and into the irrigation ditch state patrol executives noted in the release Leaders reported the woman and a -year-old girl were able to get themselves out of the car but the -year-old was stuck in her car seat when the car was submerged in water A Brush police officer rescued the child and paramedics took her to the hospital where she later died state patrol executives revealed The driver and the -year-old were both injured The cause of the crash remains under scrutiny Leaders declared no charges have been filed Related Articles Motorcyclist killed in Wheat Ridge crash north of Sloan s Lake injured in Aurora rollover crash Colorado traffic deaths drop as enforcement of new hands-free phone law ramps up Eastbound I- reopens near Glenwood Springs after crash involving semitruck carrying cattle Police offering for information in unsolved double homicide at Denver restaurant Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day