A University of Delaware freshman who had just finished her first day of classes was struck and killed by a speeding motorcyclist fleeing a traffic stop, police said.
The 18-year-old student from New Jersey, who hasn’t been named publicly, was mowed down in front of her friends and classmates near the college campus in Newark just before midnight on Tuesday.
The motorcyclist crashed into her at a “high rate of speed” just one minute after an officer had tried to pull the rider over for various traffic offenses, cops said.
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The officer wasn’t pursuing the motorcyclist at the time of the tragedy and had turned off his emergency lights when the rider sped off, police added.
Bystanders frantically tried to save the first-year student but she was pronounced dead at the scene.