An 18-year-old Seattle man was arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide Wednesday after crashing head-on into an oncoming SUV while passing illegally on a curve, killing the other driver, according to the Colorado State Patrol.

Dylan Blessing-Garcia was driving a GMC Sierra northbound on Colorado 135 about 14 miles north of Gunnison at 8:20 a.m. when he tried to pass another vehicle on a double yellow line and on a right-hand curve, state patrol officials said Thursday.

Blessing-Garcia crashed head on into a Ford Escape that heading southbound, driven by a 28-year-old woman from Crested Butte. She died at the scene.

Blessing-Garcia was treated for minor injuries and booked into the Gunnison County Jail on suspicion of vehicular homicide, the state patrol said.

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