Mesa County Rescue Underway
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A wrecked Subaru rests against a rock several hundred feet below the rim of Red Canyon after it plunged over the edge about 1 1/2 mile west of Cold Shivers Point on the Colorado National Monument earlier this evening. One woman died in the accident.
Woman dead after car goes over monument cliff
By BOBBY MAGILL
The Daily Sentinel
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
A woman was found dead Tuesday after her Subaru Outback station wagon careened off Rim Rock Drive at Colorado National Monument and landed about 250 feet below the roadway in Red Canyon.
A Federal Highway Administration employee alerted authorities after he found the woman’s car and its tracks around 5:25 p.m. while inspecting the newly repaved Rim Rock Drive, National Park Service Ranger Phil Akers said.
The victim was a middle-aged woman, Akers said, but authorities had not determined her identity as of Tuesday night. She was the only person in the car, Akers said.
The woman was driving westbound on Rim Rock Drive and veered off the roadway about 1.5 miles west of Cold Shivers Point. Akers said there were no skid marks and no sign that she tried to correct the car’s path before going over the cliff.
Akers said the approximate time of the crash had not been determined, but “the tracks were pretty fresh.”
Mesa County Search and Rescue Team members rappelled into the canyon to inspect the car, and they discovered that the woman’s body was trapped inside.
Rescuers expect to remove her body in the morning, Akers said.
The Colorado State Patrol is investigating the cause of the accident, he said.
By BOBBY MAGILL
The Daily Sentinel
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
A woman was found dead Tuesday after her Subaru Outback station wagon careened off Rim Rock Drive at Colorado National Monument and landed about 250 feet below the roadway in Red Canyon.
A Federal Highway Administration employee alerted authorities after he found the woman’s car and its tracks around 5:25 p.m. while inspecting the newly repaved Rim Rock Drive, National Park Service Ranger Phil Akers said.
The victim was a middle-aged woman, Akers said, but authorities had not determined her identity as of Tuesday night. She was the only person in the car, Akers said.
The woman was driving westbound on Rim Rock Drive and veered off the roadway about 1.5 miles west of Cold Shivers Point. Akers said there were no skid marks and no sign that she tried to correct the car’s path before going over the cliff.
Akers said the approximate time of the crash had not been determined, but “the tracks were pretty fresh.”
Mesa County Search and Rescue Team members rappelled into the canyon to inspect the car, and they discovered that the woman’s body was trapped inside.
Rescuers expect to remove her body in the morning, Akers said.
The Colorado State Patrol is investigating the cause of the accident, he said.
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