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Larrabee died two weeks after being struck by a car near her home at West 20th Street in Manhattan, her family said. She was unconscious from the time of the accident until her death at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center.
Twenty-year-old Terrence Harvey had been a BYU student for two weeks before the accident.
Harvey was traveling up I-15 with teammates Tony Fields and Roderick Foreman, said Utah State Trooper Wade Brewer. Fields, the driver, was racing another car carrying members of the football team from the north Springville exit. The accident occurred in Provo.
Harvey was alive at the scene of the accident, but died at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. Fields and Foreman were wearing seat belts, but Harvey was not, Brewer said.
Their concern is not always misplaced. Blood transfusions, while safer today than in the past, are not risk free. The chance of contracting AIDS from a unit of blood, for instance, is 1 in 500,000, and 1 in 103,000 for hepatitis C, according to the National Institutes of...