Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas, 19, Killed in Automotive Crash, 4 Teammates Injured

A 2024 Miss Teen Rodeo winner has died in a automobile crash in Kansas.

Colby Group Faculty scholar Emma Brungardt, 19, was killed and 4 of her teammates injured in a automobile accident in Thomas County, at round 9:44 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4, officers said, per The Wichita Eagle and KSN Information.

The one-vehicle collision occurred at a Y intersection and a personal drive when an 18-year-old Colorado man driving Brungardt and her teammates in a 2007 Ford F-250 truck veered “between the Y putting a tree row.” This precipitated the automobile to flip and land upright, in line with a Kansas Freeway Patrol trooper crash report obtained by the retailers. 

The motive force and Brungardt’s 4 teammates have been transported to Residents Medical Middle for his or her accidents, whereas she died on the scene of the accident, reported The Wichita Eagle and KSN Information. 

The 2024 Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas was described in a Colby Group Faculty Fb publish shared after the accident as “a candy soul” who “at all times had a constructive perspective.”

“Final evening [Brungardt] together with 4 different workforce members and our work-study have been concerned in a automobile accident,” the message learn as pictures of the late scholar horseback using have been shared alongside. “Sadly Emma didn’t stroll away from this … We’re praying for all households concerned. Her mild will stay on in and across the rodeo enviornment,” the publish concluded. 

In keeping with Colby Group Faculty, Brungardt was set to main in equine administration and manufacturing and competed in “goat tying, breakaway and workforce roping.”

The opposite workforce members concerned within the crash have been later all recognized to be from Kansas and aged between 18 and 20-years-old, reported The Wichita Eagle. 

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“The Miss Rodeo Kansas Pageant want to specific our deepest condolences to the household of Emma Brungardt, our lovely Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas 2024,” the pageant wrote on Fb.

“Emma was a real gem and horsewoman who embodied what it meant to be a rodeo queen, at all times going above and past what was anticipated of her.”

“We are going to miss her contagious smile and one in one million character. Please hold her household and associates in your prayers as they navigate by means of this unimaginable loss,” the publish concluded.

PEOPLE has reached out to the Kansas Freeway Patrol for additional remark.