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Maine student falls out of vehicle, dies in Great Smoky park

Maine student falls out of vehicle, dies in Great Smoky park

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GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) National Park Service officials say an 18-year-old college student from Maine is dead after falling out of a moving vehicle in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.

A news release says the accident occurred on Tuesday on the Foothills Parkway on the Tennessee side of the park.

The news release says Maiah Reilich-Godino of Eddington, Maine, was sitting in an open window in a 2011 Jeep Patriot when she fell. The report says the roof rack she was pulling up on disconnected from the car roof.

Reilich-Godino was a student at Maryville College.

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