CARSON CITY -- Oct. 2, 2006 (AP) -- Helen Chenoweth-Hage, a conservative Republican firebrand who served three terms as an Idaho congresswoman, was killed Monday when thrown from a car that overturned on an isolated central Nevada highway.
Chenoweth-Hage was a passenger in the S-U-V-type vehicle that flipped just before noon on State Route 376, the main route between her Pine Creek Ranch, in Monitor Valley, and Tonopah.
The Nevada Highway Patrol says the 68-year-old victim was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver, daughter-in-law Yelena Hage, and her 5-month-old son Bryan weren't seriously injured.
N-H-P Trooper Rocky Gonzalez says Chenoweth-Hage was holding the baby and wasn't wearing a seatbelt. State law requires both seatbelts and babyseats. Both Chenoweth-Hage and the baby were thrown from the car but the child had only minor injuries.
Gonzalez said the S-U-V, traveling toward Tonopah, drifted off the road to the right, swerved back to the left and then flipped as the driver overcorrected in steering to the right in efforts to stay on the road.
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Helen Chenoweth-Hage Dies in Car Accident
Former U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage died Monday in a car wreck near Tonopah, Nev., family members have confirmed.
Chenoweth-Hage, who was elected to Congress in Idaho in 1994 and served through 2000, was 68. Her daughter, Meg Chenoweth Keenan, says Chenoweth-Hage was a passenger in Monday morning's one-car crash. No one else was seriously injured.
Rep. Butch Otter, the man who replaced Chenoweth, said he only ran in 2000 because she retired. Otter says, "What a tragedy. In every sense of her being, she fought for the maximum individual liberty -- and the minimum in government." Her husband, Wayne Hage, died in June after an illness.
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