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Assumption High remembers graduate killed in car crash

LOUISVILLE, KY. (WHAS11) – It is every parent's worst fears, their child heading back to college and never arrives.

A WKU student from Louisville was killed in a crash on the Western Kentucky Parkway in Grayson County.

WHAS11 News took a trip down memory lane at Stephanie Campbell’s old stomping grounds, Louisville’s Assumption High School.

“Smart, super-involved student at Assumption, she's also a member of my parish so I know her family and instantly knew who she was and my heart just broke,” Principal Martha Tedesco recalled.

She says it was easy to tell how wise Campbell was beyond her years.

“Our kids pick a quote at the end of every year and hers was, we are here to laugh at the odds and live our life so well that death will tremble to take us,” she reads. “If she's thinking that at 17 when she picked a quote and in that short life of hers, those 21 years she lived so well and that's comforting,” Tedesco added.

Campbell passed away Sunday afternoon in Grayson County. Her car somehow entered the grass median heading west on the Western Kentucky Parkway, came back onto the road, overcorrected and eventually rolled over multiple times. She was wearing her seatbelt but the Grayson County Sheriff sys she died at the scene.

Tedesco says Campbell often came back to visit Assumption as recently as last month before WKU classes started.

“She touched so many of our lives and made such a difference in people's lives and I think that's the most important thing to remember about Stephanie.”

Twenty-one year’s young, so many plans and places to go. But just as Stephanie Campbell always called Assumption High home, those there will always and forever call her family.

We're told there was a detour on Interstate 65 South which is the way so many normally take to Bowling Green, that’s why many believe Campbell was on the Western Kentucky Parkway.

Campbell was a senior at Western Kentucky University and belonged to Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority.

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