{"id":27,"date":"2006-06-02T14:14:41","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T14:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/2006\/06\/02\/taylor-student-mix-up\/"},"modified":"2006-06-02T14:14:41","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T14:14:41","slug":"taylor-student-mix-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Taylor student mix-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure by now, everyone has heard about this or seen it on the news.&nbsp; On April 26, a van of students and staff from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylor.edu\">Taylor University<\/a> was on its way from Huntington to Fort Wayne.&nbsp; During the trip, the van was involved in a collision with a semitrailer on Interstate 69 near Highway 18.&nbsp; Four students and one staff member were killed in the accident.&nbsp; One of the students who was killed was Laura J. VanRyn.&nbsp; A survivor was Whitney E. Cerak.&nbsp; Due to mis-identification at the accident, the two girls were mis-identified.&nbsp; Laura was Whitney and Whitney was Laura.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Since then, this has made news coverage across the country.&nbsp; Below are links regarding the information about the accident, as well as a blog from the family with health updates on Whitney Cerak.<\/p>\n<p>Additional links:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylor.edu\/community\/news\/accident_04-26-06.htm\">Students, Staff Involved in Fatal Crash<\/a> (original press statement from Taylor University 04\/26\/06)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylor.edu\/community\/news\/memorial.htm\">In Loving Memory<\/a> (memorial site)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylor.edu\/community\/news\/2006_05_31_accident.htm\">New Details Learned About Van Accident<\/a> (5\/31\/06)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/lauravanryn.blogspot.com\/\">Laura VanRyn<\/a> (family blog)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060602\/NEWS01\/606020515\">Survivor&#8217;s ID was questioned weeks ago<\/a> (6\/2\/06)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060602\/NEWS01\/60602021\/0\/SPORTS0611\">Laura VanRyn&#8217;s <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060602\/NEWS01\/60602021\/0\/SPORTS0611\">body to be exhumed<\/a><a><\/a> (6\/2\/06)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure by now, everyone has heard about this or seen it on the news.&nbsp; On April 26, a van of students and staff from Taylor University was on its way from Huntington to Fort Wayne.&nbsp; During the trip, the van was involved in a collision with a semitrailer on Interstate 69 near Highway 18.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}