ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. – An Ohio woman was among two people killed by lightning at Rocky Mountain National Park over the weekend.
Park officials said lightning killed old Rebecca Teilhet, 42, of Yellow Springs and injured seven other people. The incident happened near Trail Ridge, which is the nation’s highest continuously paved road.
Officials were notified late Saturday afternoon of four people being struck by lightning, also near Trail Ridge Road, park spokeswoman Kyle Patterson said. The four were rushed to a hospital, but 52-year-old Gregory Cardwell, of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, died of his injures.
Patterson says they are the park’s first lightning fatalities since 2000.