Two separate car crashes about 14 hours apart on the same road, in almost the same spot claimed the lives of two Calhan students and left a third in critical condition.

"I think it was just bad luck that they happened at the same spot," Tim Ortiz, a technician with the Colorado State Patrol, said Thursday.

The first crash happened just before 8 p.m. Wednesday when 16-year-old Jourdan Ellis lost control of a 1994 Saturn traveling east on Funk Road about 2.4 miles east of Calhan Highway, Ortiz said.

The Saturn went off the right side of the road, spun clockwise and then collided with a fence while rolling once, he said.

Jourdan, a junior and lineman for the high school football team and a baseball player, was taken to Memorial Hospital Central and is in critical condition, according to the Calhan School District. It's unknown if Jourdan was wearing a seatbelt.

His younger sister, 14-year-old Jae Ellis,who was wearing a seatbelt, was pronounced dead at the scene.