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UPDATE: Andrews University employee killed in car crash

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A Berrien County woman was killed in a car crash yesterday afternoon.

The sheriff's department says 49-year-old Frank Simko of Berrien Center was driving south bound on M-140 and collided with a driver traveling east bound on Deans Hill Road who failed to yield at the intersection.

According to Andrews University the east bound vehicle driver was 41-year-old Esperanza Alvarez-Muniz, who was pronounced dead at the scene.

Alvarez-Muniz was the assistant dean of women for Lamson Hall at Andrews University.

The University says she was driving with her mother to pick grapes.

Her mother suffered non-life threatening injuries.

Simko wasn't injured.

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