Survivor of crash that killed 5 ‘doing better’

SALT LAKE CITY — The sole survivor of a crash that killed an adult and four teens in rural northwest Arizona was "doing better" at a Utah hospital, a family member said.

Dan Timpson told the Salt Lake Tribune (http://bit.ly/yFzBh3 ) that his 16-year-old daughter, Nakita Timpson of Colorado City, Ariz., was recovering at Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. George. He declined to comment on the extent of her injuries.

Timpson’s 19-year-old son, Jamison Timpson of Colorado City, died in the SUV crash near the Utah border, along with three other teens and an adult. Some of the victims were former members of the Warren Jeffs-led Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Authorities in Mohave County, Arizona, said while they responded to the scene Wednesday afternoon near Colorado City, the crash might have happened sometime late Tuesday or early Wednesday morning.

The victims were riding in a Chevy Suburban when it failed to make a turn and rolled. Investigators are looking at speed and alcohol as possible factors in the crash.

Stefanie Colgrove said she had been told that her 17-year-old daughter, Rachel Colgrove, of Cane Beds, Ariz., died instantly in the crash, but later found that wasn’t the case when one of her children visited Nakita in the hospital.

Timpson said Rachel Colgrove was alive for hours after the accident, the mother said. The two girls laid next to each other, holding each other and talking.

Her daughter "told Nakita that she needed her mom and dad to know that she loved them and would miss them," Stefanie Colgrove said. "Beautiful message to get, but to know that your baby is lying out in the most frigid night of the year with nothing to protect her ... that’s what I have been processing."

Also killed were Carl Holm, 22, of Hildale, Utah; Monica Bistline, 17, of Apple Valley, Utah; and Virgel Roundy, 15, of Colorado City.