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Topics: Caitlyn Jenner, Celebrity, News, US News
Niamh Shackleton
Topics: Caitlyn Jenner, Celebrity, News, US News
Caitlyn Jenner has spoken out on her close friend Sophia Hutchins' sudden passing almost two months on from her death.
Hutchins died at the age of 29 on July 2 after being involved in an ATV accident. Reportedly the incident occurred near Jenner's Malibu home.
The vehicle Hutchins was behind the wheel of plummeted down a 350 ft ravine and the young businesswoman was pronounced dead at the scene.
Allegedly, two others were in the car with her at the time of the crash who went unharmed.
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Speaking after the sad ordeal, Sergeant Eduardo Saucedo of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said that it was likely that the ATV was speeding.
"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," he told the DailyMail.com.
Saucedo continued: "It doesn't seem like she was following them. I think she just she came up on them and then hit the car.
"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."
It was later ruled that the 29-year-old died from blunt force injuries, according to a death certificate from the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health that was obtained by TMZ.
Hutchins was laid to rest following a funeral in Los Angeles on July 15, which Jenner is believed to have attended.
Jenner had been grieving the death of her friend and manager in private, but she has now addressed Hutchins' untimely passing.
Speaking on a broadcast of Fox News at Night yesterday (August 28), Jenner said: "Recently, my good friend Sophia passed away in a tragic accident. But for the last seven weeks, I've been dealing with death, and it’s so difficult."
The former Olympian went on to speak about the shooting at a school in Minneapolis earlier this week that claimed the lives of two children.
"When [the shooting] happened, it really hit me hard," Jenner shared. "Because here I am dealing with my grief, and I just can't even imagine parents who dropped their kid off at school and, like that father just said, 'I'll never get a chance to talk to him again.' That is just so horrible."
She added: "I've been dealing with grief, and these people have a long road ahead of them, and they're going to be dealing with grief."
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