PAULA GORDON, Staff Reporter

A second tragedy has hit the University of Technology (UTech) in less than a month.

This as a 25-year-old student was among three persons killed in a motor vehicle accident in North Dakota, United States, on Sunday.

Dead is Errol Lee, a third-year medical technology student from Kingston.

The others killed are 16-year-old Colton Fischer and Ashley Fischer, 17, both of Fort Collins, Colorado.

THE WEEKEND STAR understands that Lee was a passenger in a vehicle that collided with a semi-trailer.

Reports from highway patrol are that about midday, the vehicle, which was being driven by the 16-year-old, was heading in a westbound direction when it lost control on US Highway 2 in Williams County and crashed through a median into the eastbound lane.

Subsequently, a trailer that was travelling in the opposite direction slammed into the vehicle.

Meanwhile, on June 8, another student from the university, 22-year-old Okeen Andre Rashawn Daley, drowned while on the work and study programme in White County Lake.