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Kan. woman dies after jeep rolls down Colorado mountain

CHAFFEE COUNTY, CO — A Kansas woman died in an accident Tuesday in Chaffee County Colorado.

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Sheriff John Spezze reported a 2014 Jeep Wrangler driven by Jennifer Orr, 43, Wichita, was traveling on Iron Chest Road from CR 295 when it fell 600 feet down the mountain.

The jeep was at an elevation of over 11,000 feet at the time of the accident, according to Speezze.

Orr was pronounced dead at the scene.  A helicopter transported  Orr’s daughter who was passenger in the vehicle to a hospital in Pueblo.

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