Mother killed in ski lift accident

Friday, December 30, 2016
COLORADO (WPVI) -- A 40-year-old mother is dead after a freak accident at a ski resort.

First responders rushed to Ski Granby Ranch in Colorado after the woman and her two daughters fell from a chair lift.
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The two girls- ages 9 and 12- are both going to be OK, but the accident left their mother dead.

The family was visiting from Texas.
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Investigators are now trying to figure out how they fell 20 feet from the lift.

Statistics show chairlifts are normally very safe- over the past 40 years just 12 people have died from a malfunction.
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