An 83-year-old Colorado woman died in a car accident near Gillette on Tuesday.
According to a release from Wyoming Highway Patrol, Deloris Clutter, of Eaton, Colo., died in a car accident that occurred on Wyoming State Highway 50 about five miles south of Gillette at about 1:15 p.m. Tuesday.
Clutter was a backseat passenger in a 2014 Dodge Ram pickup truck which was driven by 77-year-old John Mills, of Casper, Wyo.
The pickup was towing a camper trailer and traveling south when it failed to properly negotiate a curve in the highway. The pickup and camper crossed the center line and were overcorrected to the right. The overcorrection caused the pickup and camper to leave the highway to the west and roll multiple times.
Clutter was wearing her seatbelt and remained in the vehicle during the crash, but she suffered fatal injuries on scene. Mills and another passenger, 44-year-old Gillette resident Julie Carpenter, were both wearing their seatbelts and were transported by ground ambulance to Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Gillette where they were hospitalized.
Distracted driving is currently being investigated as a contributing factor in this crash that marked the 26th highway fatality in Wyoming for 2016. There were 56 fatalities during this same time period in 2015.
The investigation is still ongoing with no charges currently filed at the time of the release.