GAINESVILLE - A Brenau University student from Gainesville, her brother and a friend have been killed in a traffic accident in Indiana while on their way to a funeral.
David Morrison, a spokesman for Brenau, said the crash happened about 10:00 Thursday morning in Waveland, Ind., about 50 miles from Indianapolis.
Morrison said 25-year-old Amanda Mills from Gainesville, who was in the pre-physician program at Brenau, and her 21-year-old brother Logan Mills, a student at West Georgia College in Carrollton, were there to attend the funeral of their step-mother. They were traveling with a friend of Amanda's, 25-year-old Anthony Suggs of Ruskin, Fla., to the funeral in a snowstorm when the car went out of control and hit a tractor-trailer. All three were killed. Morrison said Amanda's 3-year-old daughter, Armaya, was in a car behind her mother and not hurt.
Montgomery County sheriff's Chief Deputy Ryan Needham says the truck driver was unhurt.
Amanda and Logan's mother, Deana Martin, who is a graduate student at Brenau working on a master's in organizational leadership, was at work at Merial Select in Gainesville, where she is a functional planner in the R&D department, when she was notified of the accident by telephone. Morrison said the company was to fly her to Indiana Thursday night.
Gale Starich, dean of health and science and Amanda's faculty adviser, said Amanda was a top student, a junior, who had transferred to Brenau in May from Georgia Perimeter College, to participate in the university's physician assistant program.
The funeral service was postponed because of the crash.
(The Associated Press contributed to this story.)
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