2 Ohio State Students Dead, 7 Injured In Florida Spring Break Car Crash

Two Ohio State University students were killed and two of their classmates are in critical condition following a head-on collision in Florida. Brittney Gallagher and Courtney Miller, both 21, were pronounced dead at the scene after their car spun across the road in the Florida panhandle. Their friends and classmates Diana Mitchell and Lauren Kane, 22, are still in critical condition at Bay Medical Center in Panama City, Fla.

The four friends were on their way back home to Ohio following a spring break trip to Panama City Beach.

The car was being driven by Gallagher when the car went across the central reservation. She reportedly steered the car back into her lane, but it spun out of control and went back into the opposite lane, where it hit a truck coming the other way. Gallagher, a lacrosse-playing graduate of Lake Catholic High School in Mentor, lived in Willougby, Ohio, and was majoring in consumer and family financial services.

Miller, who was in the passenger seat at the time of the crash, was on the dean's list at OSU where she majored in education. Her parents Robert and Lisa Miller, of Niles, Ohio, said their daughter had hoped to become a teacher or school administrator.

"She was very happy, outgoing and loving -- she was a joy to be around," Mr. Miller said.

He also said his daughter, who leaves an older sister, Lauren, and younger sister Gabriella, was "very proud to be an OSU student."

Diana Mitchell is from Solon, Ohio and is majoring in health sciences, and Lauren Kane, from Willoughby, Ohio is majoring in biology.

According to the Daily mail, the driver of the truck, 26-year-old Kelly Porter, and four passengers, all from Oklahoma, were taken to Gulf Coast Medical Center in Panama City for treatment. Porter and three of her passengers are said to be seriously injured, while one passenger is being treated for minor injuries.

Police stated that the two dead students had been wearing seatbelts, and added that alcohol was not a factor in the crash, which happened near Ebro, 16 miles north of Panama City Beach.