An 18-year-old incoming freshman who was in Baton Rouge for orientation died Monday night after her car was broadsided by a pickup truck on South Acadian Thruway.Morgan Elizabeth Thompson, of Fairhope, Ala., was driving a Nissan Versa around 5:30 p.m. Monday in the 2300 block of South Acadian Thruway, Baton Rouge Police Department spokesman Sgt. Don Kelly said in a news release.She apparently left a private driveway into the path of 22-year-old Kevin Kearney, of Baton Rouge, who was driving northbound in a Ford F-150 pickup truck, which “broadsided the Nissan on the driver’s side.” Her mother, Mary Thompson, was also in the car and is now in “stable condition with moderate injuries” at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. Kearney was treated for minor injuries at the scene.Jennifer Sinclair, a senior guidance counselor at Fairhope High School, said Morgan Thompson planned to study architecture and graphic design at the University and received a full scholarship. Sinclair said Morgan Thompson graduated as a co-valedictorian of Fairhope High’s 2010 class, which had about 275 graduates. “She knew very early on in her senior year that she wanted to go to LSU,” Sinclair said. “I can remember her bringing me a copy of her scholarship letter when she got it. Morgan wasn’t a person who would jump up and down, but she was obviously very proud of her  accomplishments.”Morgan and Mary Thompson were “apparently in town for LSU freshman orientation,” Kelly said in the release. The seventh of eight freshman orientation sessions ran from Monday, July 12 to Tuesday, July 13. Kelly said alcohol is not believed to be a factor, and an investigation continues. “She had a lot of things going for her that were going to make her successful,” Sinclair said. “She was never afraid of hard work.”
 
 
 
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