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ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a 4-year-old girl who died after the vehicle she was in rolled into the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in southwestern Wyoming.
Sweetwater County Sheriff Rich Haskell said Monday that Natalie Gibson died in Saturday afternoon's accident while a group was fishing from the bank of the reservoir. She was with her 23-year-old mother, a 27-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl, all of Rock Springs.
Haskell says a Jeep Wrangler with the child inside was parked back from the shoreline and apparently rolled into the water. Witnesses say the man was injured when he tried to stop the vehicle from going into the water.
Details about his injuries have not been released.
Divers recovered the girl's body from the submerged vehicle.
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