UW -Whitewater sophomore Samantha Burrow died during the summer from injuries sustained in a car crash.

Burrow, 20, reportedly was driving home from work in Fort Atkinson July 29 and lost control of the vehicle on Highway H near Elkhorn.

According to the Walworth Co. Sherriff's Department, Burrow was exceeding the speed limit when she hit a soft shoulder of the highway and collided with a tree.

She was pronounced dead Aug. 12 at Froedort Hospital in Milwaukee after being in a coma for about two weeks.

Burrow was a 2007 graduate of Elkhorn Area High School.