SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman has died from injuries suffered in an Aug. 17 crash that killed her 16-year-old daughter.
Police say 44-year-old Brandilee Kussee Chacon died Tuesday, one month Sierra Rosalina Chacon was fatally injured in the wreck in Big Cottonwood Canyon in mountains east of metro Salt Lake City.
The mother and daughter were sleeping in the covered bed of their pickup while a camping trip when a car went off a road and slammed into their vehicle at about 3 a.m.
Police say the men in the car had been drinking and that investigators hoped DNA evidence would confirm the identity of the driver.
