FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 25, 2023
ONE DEAD IN RAFTING ACCIDENT ON COLORADO RIVER
GRAND COUNTY, CO – On June 25, 2023 at approximately 12:48 p.m. Grand County Dispatch received a report of an overturned raft on the Colorado River by Radium Campground in unincorporated Grand County. The Bureau of Land Management, Kremmling Police Department, Grand County Sheriff’s Office, Grand County Emergency Medical Services, and MedEvac responded to Radium Campground where an unresponsive 51-year-old female had been pulled out from the water. Life saving measures were unsuccessful and the woman was pronounced deceased on scene.
The Coroner’s Office is working with the victim’s family who is from the Kremmling area. The decedent’s identity and cause and manner of death will be released by the Coroner when appropriate.
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