{"id":178954,"date":"2025-07-06T04:08:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T04:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/06\/sophia-hutchins-may-have-been-speeding-in-tragic-atv-crash\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T04:08:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T04:08:24","slug":"sophia-hutchins-may-have-been-speeding-in-tragic-atv-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/06\/sophia-hutchins-may-have-been-speeding-in-tragic-atv-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Hutchins May Have Been Speeding in Tragic ATV Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Sophia Hutchins<\/strong>, Caitlyn Jenner<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s friend and manager, was reportedly speeding while driving an ATV before her deadly crash<\/a> in Malibu on Tuesday, July 2.<\/p>\n

It was reported that Hutchins was riding the ATV near her friend and client Jenner\u2019s Malibu home when she struck a car on Tuesday morning. The collision reportedly caused the ATV and Hutchins to plunge 350 feet into a nearby ravine, where she was later pronounced dead at the scene. (Hutchins was 29 years old.)<\/p>\n

Sergeant Eduardo Saucedo<\/strong>, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department\u2019s Malibu \/ Lost Hills division, has since told The Daily Mail<\/em><\/a> that Hutchins was driving a black and blue-colored 2013 Polaris utility vehicle when she collided with a gray 2016 Mazda 6. (The two women in the Mazda were not hurt.)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like she may have been speeding and rear-ended the other car, the other party, and then that caused her to veer to the right and go off the cliff,\u201d Saucedo clarified. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t seem like she was following them. I think she just came up on them and then hit the car.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saucedo suggested that Hutchins could have been trying to \u201cmaneuver\u201d around the Mazda at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was going too fast and just ended up clipping the rear end of that Mazda, causing her to veer off and go off the cliff there,\u201d the officer theorized.<\/p>\n

The officer confirmed that Jenner did visit the accident site as the investigation was underway. Investigators initially reportedly had to leave the damaged ATV in the ravine because local tow trucks did not have the necessary equipment to haul it back up the cliff.<\/p>\n

Saucedo suggested that the investigators would wait for the coroner\u2019s department to prepare a toxicology report before determining whether or not Hutchins was impaired while behind the wheel.<\/p>\n

Us Weekly<\/em> has reached out to the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department for comment.<\/p>\n

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\n Sophia Hutchins and Caitlyn Jenner in April 2019.<\/span> Stefanie Keenan\/Getty Images for The Hollywood Reporter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hutchins lived at Jenner\u2019s Malibu home, where she also worked out of a converted guest house. She originally appeared on Jenner\u2019s 2015 docuseries I Am Cait<\/em> before becoming the athlete\u2019s business manager. (Hutchins graduated from Pepperdine University with a degree in economics and finance in 2019.)<\/p>\n

Jenner and Hutchins frequently denied that they were romantically involved<\/a>. During a 2019 Good Morning Britain<\/em> interview with Piers Morgan<\/strong>, she objected to questions about whether or not she and Jenner were \u201can item.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a really special relationship. I don\u2019t think we need to be an item to have a really special relationship, so to speak,\u201d she replied. \u201cI am here for Caitlyn 1,000 percent and Caitlyn\u2019s here for me 1,000 percent. I think the best way to describe our relationship is that we are partners in every sense of the word. When it comes to work, absolutely there for each other 100 percent. When it comes to family and our personal relationship, absolutely there for each other 100 percent and there\u2019s no denying it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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