NBA super agent Dan Fegan has reportedly been the victim of a fatal car crash near Aspen, Colorado. Two other passengers, a 29-year-old woman and Fegan’s 5-year-old son, were airlifted to a Denver hospital after their vehicle was hit by a bus.
Following comes from Erica Robbie of the Aspen Times.
Dan Fegan, a longtime sports agent who represented some of the NBA’s biggest stars, was killed Sunday morning near Aspen when the SUV he was driving was hit by a bus on Highway 82, sources confirmed Sunday.
Fegan was killed when the SUV he was driving was hit by a Roaring Fork Transportation Authority bus along Highway 82, the Colorado State Patrol said.
Two other passengers in the SUV, a 29-year-old woman from California and Fegan’s 5-year-old son, were airlifted to a hospital in Denver with serious injuries, according to Colorado State Trooper Gabe Easton. The name of the woman has not been released.
There was one passenger on the Glenwood Springs-bound bus, Easton said. Although they were “shaken up,” the bus driver and passenger were not injured, RFTA CEO Dan Blankenship said.
The vehicles collided around 9:22 a.m. as the SUV attempted to merge on the highway from Smith Way road at about mile marker 34, according to Blankenship. The intersection is just downvalley from RFTA’s Brush Creek Intercept Lot.
“The bus didn’t have time to avoid the collision, so it broadsided the other vehicle and knocked it into the median,” Blankenship said.
The highway was closed and traffic was diverted. The road reopened just after 11:30 a.m., according to Pitkin County alerts.
The first people at the incident included a firefighter from Crested Butte and a park ranger, according to officials on the scene.
This is not the first fatal crash that involved a RFTA bus, according to Blankenship, but he didn’t immediately know the number.
“These are very traumatic events for everyone in the RFTA organization and for the people that were involved that were in the other vehicle. Our hearts go out to them and they are in our thoughts and prayers,” Blankenship said. “We just hope for the best for everyone involved. We feel badly that this happened.”
This accident comes just a few short weeks after the death of former NBA player Rasual Butler, his wife and NBA agent Henry Thomas. Butler and his wife also died in a car accident and Thomas died from a neuromuscular disease.
A 2016 Forbes article named Fegan as one of the premier agents in the NBA. He had a client list that once featured DeMarcus Cousins, John Wall, DeAndre Jordan, Chandler Parsons and Dwight Howard. But most of his clients parted ways in 2015 and 2016 amid a messy incident and lawsuit with his former company, Independent Sports & Entertainment (ISE).
