Colorado state senator’s BAC was twice legal limit at time of fatal car crash: Coroner’s report

Published December 20, 2025 2:08pm ET



A coroner’s autopsy report found that a Democratic Colorado state senator had a blood alcohol content twice the legal limit at the time of her death in a fatal car crash.

Democratic Colorado State Sen. Faith Winter, 45, died at the scene of the car crash on the night of Nov. 26. An investigation was announced in the aftermath, the results of which have begun to emerge. An Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office report on her death, obtained by Denver7 and 9News, found that her BAC was .185%, more than twice Colorado’s legal limit of .08%.

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