(RNN) - The first known victim of Thursday's pedestrian bridge collapse at Florida International University is Alexa Duran, an 18-year-old student at the school.
The Miami Herald's Spanish-language paper, el Nuevo Herald, spoke to her father, Orlando Duran, who had been traveling in London.
"She died when the bridge collapsed on top of her car," he said. He told el Nuevo Herald she became trapped in her car.
She was driving a Toyota SUV with her friend Richard Humble in the passenger seat when the bridge collapsed. Humble was able to get out of the car, another friend of the pair told the paper.
The friend, Manny Perez, told the paper Duran was "the funniest person I know" and "an awesome person."
“This is going to be the longest and saddest trip of my life. I don’t want to return,” said her father from London, where he was traveling when he got the news. #FIUbridge https://t.co/k5iNuikX3T
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 16, 2018
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