A car crash on Saturday near Daytona Beach, Fla. has left onestudent dead and another in critical condition.
Both junior Kyle Trosky, 22, of Carmel, and sophomore KaitlinCulpepper, 20, of Brownsburg, were thrown from Culpepper's carafter she swerved to miss a state trooper's car, according toreports from the television station WESH in Orlando.
Trosky was pronounced dead at the scene and Culpepper was takento a Daytona hospital, the station reported.
The students were driving northbound on Interstate-95 in theleft lane when State Trooper Curt Glaenzer pulled out in front ofthem, the station reported.
Glaenzer pulled out from the median in pursuit of a trafficviolator. Culpepper swerved to miss the trooper's car but hit boththe trooper's car and a third car, the station reported.
Culpepper's car flipped over in the median. Both Culpepper andTrosky were thrown from the car because they were not wearing seatbelts, the station reported.
Florida State Troopers are investigating the car crash, thestation reported. Glaenzer will continue on active duty during theinvestigation.
Glaenzer and the people in the third car were not seriouslyinjured.
Todd Berger, who played roller hockey with Trosky, said Trosky,a business administration major, was returning from his SpringBreak trip in South Beach Miami.
Trosky was a goalie for the Ball State Roller Hockey club team,club vice-president Adam Knott said.
"He was a great guy," Knott said. "He'd give you the shirt onhis back."
Knott said he met Trosky while they were in elementary school,and they have played hockey together ever since.
Berger said Trosky had a great sense of humor and a way ofmaking everyone around him smile.
"He was the guy on the team that everybody liked," Berger said."He was the one everyone looked up to."
Knott said Trosky could be intimidating because he was a bigguy, but Knott said that he was really just "a normal goodguy."
"He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," Knottsaid.
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