Young girl’s foot run over after getting off bus near CB South

Few details available at this point

A 15-year-old girl had her foot run over by a truck on Saturday, June 4 sometime after disembarking from an RTA bus near the Crested Butte South stop. She was treated at Gunnison Valley Hospital, where, according to GVH CEO Randy Phelps, she “had broken bones in her right foot, including a couple of her toes, and we repaired that here.”

The girl was released on June 9 with instructions for a follow-up appointment in three or four days and physical therapy.
Mt. Crested Butte Police responded to the incident, which was reported by both parties after the fact. Due to scheduling conflicts, the responding officer and the chief officer were unable to respond to inquiries. However, Mt. Crested Butte Police records and administrative assistant Marge Trautman did confirm that specific details in the case are sparse.
“We have very little, simply because it was so after the fact when we got the report,” she said.
According to an update from the Gunnison Valley Rural Transportation Authority executive director Scott Truex to the RTA board on Friday, June 10, the girl “forgot to pull the cord to let the driver know she wanted off, so she got off farther down than she normally would.” Very little information is available, however, as to whether she was near the bus when the accident occurred; the driver did not see the accident.
Crested Butte South Property Owners Association manager Chris Behan went before the RTA board, asking them to reconsider their policy not to deviate off of 135 in light of the accident.
“I have been asked again to encourage you guys to primarily, in light of the recent thing Scott is talking about, consider reversing your policy that talks about not deviating off of 135,” Behan said.
Without more information, it was unclear to the board to what extent the accident involved the RTA. Board chair Jonathon Houck asked Truex to gather more information.