A federal law enforcement officer died Monday after his car went over a 200-foot embankment.

Bureau of Indian Affairs Officer Joshua Yazzie, 33, was driving near the Bottle Hollow Reservoir on the Ute Indian Reservation in Uintah County about 6:15 p.m. to help ambulance workers who were working with an intoxicated person who was behaving violently, troopers wrote in a news statement.

About a mile south of U.S. Highway 40 and four miles east of Roosevelt, Yazzie lost control of his patrol car and overcorrected, causing the vehicle to roll off an embankment.

Yazzie was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the car, troopers wrote. He died at the scene.

Yazzie is survived by his wife and two children, troopers wrote.

Erin Alberty