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British student killed in U.S. campus accident
A British student has died on an exchange trip to America after being run over by a bus while she was out jogging, her family said today.

A BRITISH student has died on an exchange trip to America after being run over by a bus while she was out jogging, her family said today.

Lisa Moran, 20, from Paisley in Scotland, was running at the Chapel Hill campus in North Carolina when the tragic accident happened.

Today her family described her as a "beautiful" girl who had been having the time of her life in the United States.

Staff at the University of North Carolina (UNC) have expressed their condolences and the high-flying student's social networking page, Bebo, has been flooded with tributes.

Miss Moran was on the six-month exchange as part of her third-year studies for a law and business degree at Glasgow University.

She had been due to return home in just a few weeks.

Miss Moran was running on campus at an intersection on May 15 when the accident happened.

Her parents, Fraser and Carolyn travelled to America to bring their daughter's body home.

Speaking today at the family home in Paisley, Mr Moran said: "Lisa was beautiful, she was fiercely intelligent, fun-loving and was having a great time in America.

"She made a lot of new friends out there, she was having a fantastic time and she was as happy as she had ever been in her life.

"Lisa was enjoying every minute of her time in America. She was loved by all who knew her and it is a terrible, terrible loss to all of us. She was at the peak of her powers."

Mr Moran, who has two other children, Kevin, 17, and Natalie, nine, added: "It was just a very, very unfortunate accident that nine times out of ten it would not have happened.

"Lisa was out jogging, she came to a crossroads and did not see the bus coming."

Mr Moran said his daughter, a former pupil at St Andrews Academy in Paisley, had intended to complete her degree on her return to Scotland.

The student, who received six A-grades in her Higher exams and was Dux at her school had then hoped to pursue a career in law, possibly back in North Carolina.

She was also keen on sport, having been a ski instructor, and enjoyed squash, her father said.

Miss Moran's funeral will be held on Friday in Paisley.

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Posted by: a mum, concerned on 11:15am Sun 25 May 08
Lisa Manning was out for a jog that Thursday morning when she tried to cross Manning drive and a Chapel Hill Transit bus hit and killed her.
There was no crosswalk where the accident happened. Many who work around that area say it's one of the toughest places on the campus to navigate. Everyone is in a rush to get somewhere. There is a lot of traffic and a lot of pedestrian traffic as well. there is also construction which makes it all the more confusing. Four-lane roads like Manning Drive are where most accidents occur.
I blame the authorities.
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Posted by: Mum on 11:35am Sun 25 May 08
Three days after Lisa Moran died, 38-year-old Barbara Boone Sims, a homeless woman of Chapel Hill was struck and killed at the corner of weaver Dairy Road and Perkins Drive.

In January 2006 five pedestrian accidents occurred in the same area, two of which were fatal.
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Posted by: M, usa on 12:09pm Sun 25 May 08
Clifton Walker Steed, 62, was another victim who was hit and killed by a southbound Chapel Hill Transit bus whilst crossing MLK Blvd at Hillsborough Street and Umstead Drive.
All victims were kiled within a block of the NC 86 corridor (South Columbia Street and Martin Luther King Blvd).
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Posted by: heady on 8:27am Sun 1 Jun 08

What’s wrong with this awful website? When you click on several of the section headings you get “no content” even though there is content listed elsewhere and when you can find the stories then as often as not when you click on them the story is not there – though the adverts always seem to be – then when you try again a few times the text of the article appears! I hope SH don’t pay for this “service”. Oh, and the “breaking news” on the front page is a week old, some “news”paper!
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Posted by: Hugh V McLachlan, Elderslie on 9:37am Sun 1 Jun 08
This story is not 'breaking news'. In the more substantial version of the story which I read some time ago in my local paper, it was made clear that there had been an investigation into the accident and that it was established by eye-witnesses that the poor girl had made the mistakes of wearing a personal stereo while she was jogging and of looking right rather than left before trying to cross the road.
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Posted by: Elizabeth H on 5:08am Wed 25 Jun 08
ok maybe to you this isn't breaking news or even important, but to those of us who knew and loved her, it is breaking news. It's so tragic and just because it didn't hurt you don't mean it didn't hurt others.
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