GATLINBURG, Tenn. — A Tennessee college student was killed when she fell out of a window of a moving vehicle in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, officials said.
A statement from the National Park Service says Maiah Reilich-Godino, 18, of Eddington, Maine, was a passenger in a 2011 Jeep Patriot on Tuesday night.
The statement said Reilich-Godino fell from the vehicle when the roof rack she was pulling up on disconnected from the roof.
Reilich-Godino died as a result of her injuries. Neither the driver nor the other passenger in the car was hurt, officials said.
The accident occurred around 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday on the Foothills Parkway near mile marker 13 on the Tennessee side of the park, which straddles the North Carolina border.
Reilich-Godino was a student at Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee.
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