Two sisters from Rhode Island died Saturday after the two fell outside and could not get up overnight.

The 97-year-old twin sisters were only a few steps away from one of the women's home.

According to Barington Police, sisters Jean Haley and Martha Williams returned to Haley's home on Friday night after going to dinner with their 89-year-old sister. 

Williams was walking to her car to leave Haley's home when she fell in the driveway, the Associated Press reported.

Haley went to call police for help, but she tripped and fell in the garage. Police said she might have tripped on a rug.

Temperatures were as low as 22 degrees on Saturday night.

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The renovation of Jekyll Island's Great Dunes golf course includes nine holes designed by Walter Travis in the 1920s for the members of the Jekyll Island Club. Several holes that were part of the original layout where located along the beach and were bulldozed in the 1950s.(Photo by Austin Kaseman)

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