YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) – An Eastern Michigan University women’s basketball player and another student were killed early Sunday when their car crossed the center line of a road and hit an oncoming vehicle, authorities say.
The collision happened about 1 a.m. in Ypsilanti Township, west of the school’s Ypsilanti campus, the Washtenaw County sheriff’s department said in a statement.
Shannise Heady, a 21-year-old junior forward for the Eagles, was driving when her car veered into the vehicle of a 22-year-old driver, who was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, the sheriff’s department said.
Heady, of Hazel Crest, Illinois, and her 23-year-old passenger, Jordan Hopkins, an Eastern Michigan senior from Dexter, died.
The circumstances of the crash remain under investigation, the sheriff’s department said.