In this photo provided by Wyoming Highway Patrol, a van which was carrying four members of a family who died, is seen downstream from washed-out section of Wyoming Highway 130 in the Medicine Bow Mountains in southern Wyoming on Tuesday, July 19, 2011. Th
In this photo provided by Wyoming Highway Patrol, a van which was carrying four members of a family who died, is seen downstream from washed-out section of Wyoming Highway 130 in the Medicine Bow Mountains in southern Wyoming on Tuesday, July 19, 2011. They were fleeing torrential rains at a national forest campground. Wyoming Highway Patrol, Associated Press
By Associated Press

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Authorities have identified the four Colorado family members killed after their vehicle drove into a washed-out section of a mountain highway in Wyoming.

The Wyoming Highway Patrol says 39-year-old Laurel Constantinides and her three daughters— 8-year-old Hanna, 5-year-old Zoey and 2-year-old Lucia — all died early Tuesday morning. All are from Colorado Springs.

The patrol says the father and husband, 39-year-old Alex Constantinides, survived and was taken to a hospital. He was released later Tuesday.

The family had been camping in Medicine Bow National Forest when they fled torrential rains and drove into a 25-foot washed out section of Wyoming 130.

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A local emergency management official who was responding to the accident also plunged into the creek and was rescued about two hours later.

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