New details are being revealed in regards to Sophia Hutchins’ tragic death.
According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, Hutchins’ official cause of death was listed as multiple blunt force injuries. Her place of death was a cliff and the manner is listed as an accident.
The news comes after Caitlyn Jenner’s longtime friend and manager died on July 2 in Malibu, California, in an accident involving an ATV and another vehicle. She was 29.
While details surrounding the accident remain limited, TMZ previously reported that Hutchins was riding an ATV on a road when she struck the bumper of a separate moving Mazda vehicle. (Two people in the Mazda were uninjured.)
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The impact forced the ATV over the shoulder of the road and sent Hutchins approximately 350 feet down into a ravine. She was pronounced dead at the scene, per TMZ.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Sergeant Eduardo Saucedo also shared details about Hutchins’ fatal crash in a rare interview with the Daily Mail.
“It 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,” Saucedo told the outlet on July 5. “It doesn’t seem like she was following them. I think she just came up on them and then hit the car. It looked like she tried to maneuver to go around it, but she 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.”
One of Hutchins’ closest friends in California was Jenner, 75. She became friends with the former Keeping Up With the Kardashians star in 2015 amid the Olympian’s highly publicized gender transition.
Hutchins, who was also a transgender woman, appeared on Jenner’s I Am Cait docuseries from 2015 to 2016.
The reality star previously called Hutchins her “best friend, family and confidant” in a 2019 interview.
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“She is one of the top minds in her field,” Jenner shared with The New York Times. “Her value in my life is undeniable. The sky is the limit with her entrepreneurial spirit.”
Jenner has not addressed Hutchins’ death at length, but told a photographer, per the Daily Mail, “I don’t want to talk,” before acknowledging she was going through “tough times.”
Amid her grieving, Caitlyn was able to attend Brody Jenner’s wedding to Tia Blanco in Malibu on Saturday, July 12.
