LAKEWOOD, Colo. — A victim injured in a two-vehicle crash involving a Grand Junction area school bus in Lakewood earlier this month has died, Lakewood Police announced Sunday.

No fatalities were reported on the Mesa County School District 51 activity bus carrying Central High School students and coaches.

The 18-year-old victim, Julio Vasquez-Gonzalez, was a passenger in an SUV that police say crashed into the bus at high speed on Dec. 6 on Kipling Street near the 6th Avenue Freeway exit.

The crash injured several students and at least one coach attending a wrestling tournament at Arapahoe High School in the Denver metro area.

On Tuesday, District 51 said on social media that the few students still in the hospital were “making positive progress in their recovery.”

The driver of the S

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