It was a busy weekend up there. This guy was in Jeep and had an accident.
Its really bad to hear things like these.
ARIZONA CENTRAL ARTICLE:
Phoenix man dies in car plunge off cliff
Associated Press
Oct. 14, 2002 07:47 AM
CROWN KING - A 35-year-old Phoenix man was found dead after his car
plunged over a 500-foot cliff near the tiny community of Crown King.
The Yavapai County sheriff's office called in a DPS helicopter to help
in the recovering of the body of Clinton Keeler on Saturday.
Kyle
www.usa4x4.org
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken
To:
listserv@azgeocaching.com
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 7:01 PM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Geocaching accident
We had a trip planned to Crown King this weekend with 4 other families. Decided to hit one or two caches on the way up and stopped off to do the "B.B." cache. On the way back from a small easy hike from the cache site one of our group slipped on some pea gravel on a shallow 3 foot incline. She fell to the ground and dislocated her ankle and broke it in two places. The group we were with consisted of 1 certified EMT and one former EMT and two police officers. We were able provide the emergency services ourselves and get her to the hospital within an hour. Two hours of surgery and lots of bolts later the ankle was put back together. She is expected to be in the hospital for another day and off work for 4-6 weeks.
I'm posting this as a friendly reminder to be careful when out doing the remote caches sites. Always let someone know where you are going, bring a cell phone, and BE PREPARED for the unexpected. This was not a difficult cache and was truly an accident. The remote location of this cache could have made it much worse if it was a solo cache hunter.
Ken
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