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Tue Jun 27, 2023, 12:44 PM Jun 2023

Jim Crown, managing partner of Aspen Skiing Co., dies in accident Sunday at Woody Creek race track [View all]

Jim Crown, managing partner of Aspen Skiing Co., dies in accident Sunday at Woody Creek race track

News NEWS | Jun 26, 2023

Jim Crown died Sunday on a Woody Creek race track, on his 70th birthday.

The chairman and CEO of Henry Crown, and managing partner of Aspen Skiing Co., struck an impact barrier in a single-vehicle accident at the Aspen Motorsports Park in Woody Creek, according to the Pitkin County Coroner’s Office.

“The official cause of death is pending autopsy, although multiple blunt force trauma is evident,” the Coroner’s Office said in a statement. “The manner is accident.”

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