A 21-year-old University of Georgia student from Lawrenceville died on Aug. 22 after a head-on car crash in Michigan, the Red & Black student newspaper in Athens reported.

A funeral service will be held for Amy Katherine Lee at 3 p.m. Sunday at McKendree United Methodist Church on Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, the student newspaper reported.

On. Aug. 19, Arenac County deputies responded to a head-on collision in Omer, Mich. around 10:45 a.m., WNEM reported.

Deputies told the news station Bryan Bell, 35, of Saginaw, Mich., crossed the center line of US-23 near Washington Road and struck the vehicle driven by 52-year-old Karen Lee, of Dacula.

Amy Lee and her brother Timothy Lee, 24, were also in the vehicle. All three were brought to St. Mary’s Medical Center with injuries, but their conditions were not provided to the news station. The Red & Black reported that Amy Lee is survived by Timothy and Karen Lee.

Officials told WNEM that Bell was not charged for the accident, and alcohol was not believed to be a factor in the crash, which remains under investigation.

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