Survivor of Arizona crash that killed five ‘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 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 her injuries.

Timpson's son, Jamison Timpson, 19, 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, Ariz., responded to the scene Wednesday afternoon near Colorado City, but the crash happened 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.