New and chilling details on the ATV crash that killed Caitlyn Jenner’s longtime manager and friend, Sophia Hutchins, are being revealed by authorities.
Hutchins died in Malibu on the morning of July 2, near Jenner’s home, when her ATV hit the back bumper of a moving vehicle. She was then thrown off the road and down a 350-foot ravine.
The collision happened at 11:30 a.m. in the 4200 block of Decker Edison Road.
Sergeant Eduardo Saucedo of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office told the Daily Mail that Hutchins was likely speeding while traveling southbound on the road in a black and blue 2013 Polaris “side-by-side” when she rear-ended a gray 2016 Mazda 6.
“It looks like she may have been speeding and rear-ended the other car, the other party, and then that caused her to veer to the right and go off the cliff,” Saucedo told the outlet. “It doesn’t seem like she was following them. I think she just came up on them and then hit the car.”
The other vehicle had two female passengers inside, but they were not injured in the crash.
“So it looked like she tried to maneuver to go around it, but she was going too fast and just ended up clipping the rear end of that Mazda, causing her to veer off and go off the cliff there,” Saucedo continued.
Video provided by OnScene.TV to KTLA 5 shows Hutchins’ ATV down the ravine near another vehicle. That vehicle’s remnants are from a separate crash not related to Hutchins.
Hutchins was declared dead at the scene after crews rappelled down the cliff to recover her body.
It’s not known if drugs or alcohol played a factor in the crash.
Born in Seattle, Washington, the 29-year-old first met the 75-year-old Jenner in 2015 and cited the Olympian for coming out as a transgender woman the next year. She starred in Jenner’s E! reality series “I Am Cait.”
She later became Jenner’s manager as well as the CEO and director of the Caitlyn Jenner Foundation. She was also the CEO of the sunscreen brand LUMASOL.
Hutchins graduated from Pepperdine University in 2019. During her time there, she was the first transgender person to serve on the student government.
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