A
13-year-old Moorcroft girl was killed in a single-car, rollover
crash near Pine Haven on Tuesday, according to a release from the
Wyoming Highway Patrol.
McKenzie Cain was seated in the rear of the 1995
Chevrolet Berretta at the time of the accident and was the only
passenger who wasn't wearing a seat belt.
Brittney Cain, 16, was driving the vehicle. The
other passenger was 15-year-old Chelsea Dampman. Both are from
Moorcroft, and both were treated an released from Campbell County
Hospital in Gillette.
According to the report, Brittney Cain was
driving westbound on Highway 113 on dry roads and during clear
weather. She told troopers she was talking on the cell phone at
9:41 a.m. when her vehicle drifted off the roadway and onto the
north shoulder. The WHP said evidence indicated Cain overcorrected
the steering to the left, causing the Berretta to come back onto
the roadway, where she then overcorrected to the right. That caused
the vehicle to go into a broadside slide as it rotated clockwise.
The vehicle went off the north side of the roadway, traveling down
into the north barrow ditch. The Berretta then rolled two times,
going through the right-of-way fence and coming to a rest on its
wheels.
During the rollover, McKenzie Cain was partially
ejected through the rear passenger window.
It
was the 66th Wyoming highway fatality of the year. There were 70 at
this time last year.
