Woman dies in one-vehicle mishap

A 62-year-old Greybull woman died last week when the pickup she was driving ran off the road and over a cliff, eventually coming to a rest along the creek bottom on the backside of the Greybull Heights.

Constance Jane Luallen, who lived at 3370 Rimrock Road, was pronounced dead at the scene Thursday night, but the Big Horn County Coroner’s Office has since determined she’d been there for several days, estimating her date of death as Monday, March 24. 

While toxicology tests are pending, the coroner’s office ruled out foul play, characterizing it as an accident and listing blunt-force trauma and possible mechanical asphyxiation as the immediate cause of death.

Sheriff Ken Blackburn said the vehicle was discovered by a UPS driver who noticed that packages left for Luallen hadn’t been taken inside.   Finding that suspicious, the driver then noticed a section of downed fence, and beyond it, the wrecked truck at the bottom of the cliff.

Luallen lived by herself at the residence, which is at the end of Rimrock.