Photo:Courtesy of Cleveland National Forest
Courtesy of Cleveland National Forest
A woman died and a teenager was severely injured while hiking in California last week, according to officials.
Sarah Louise Crocker, 48, was at Three Sisters Falls in the Cleveland National Forest with a group of four teenagers on Thursday morning when “one of the teens slipped” along the ledge of one of the falls, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department wrote in astatement.
“The woman supervising the teenagers attempted to keep the girl from going over the ledge,” police said.
However, in the process she fell after “losing her footing," according to a statement from theSan Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office. The medical examiner said that both Crocker and the teen, identified as a family friend, “went over the edge of the waterfall and landed in the bottom-mot pool of water.”
As a result, “both the woman and girl fell and suffered severe injuries,” according to the Sheriff’s Office.
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“Several people witnessed the accident and attempted to render medical aid," police said in a statement. Despite life-saving efforts, Crocker was pronounced dead at the scene, while the teenager, who has not been publicly identified, was airlifted to a local hospital with “severe but non-life-threatening injuries."
Crocker died of “multiple blunt force injuries” and “drowning," according to the medical examiner.
The hiking accident was reported on June 8.Courtesy of Cleveland National Forest
“The sheriff’s department does respond to multiple injuries and rescues in that area every year,” San Diego County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson Lt. Jeff Ford said in a statement to CNN, adding that “fatalities are a rare occurrence.”
source: people.com
