{"id":199262,"date":"2026-03-20T14:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199262\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:57:20","slug":"iu-student-and-recent-grad-on-spring-break-killed-in-miami-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199262\/","title":{"rendered":"IU student and recent grad on spring break killed in Miami crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"451\" height=\"328\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3d14ffcd2682173f18b3866097b67543.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An Indiana University student and a 2024 IU grad celebrating spring break in Miami were killed Wednesday night when a speeding car ran them down as they crossed a street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sarisa &#8220;Lisa&#8221; Kongduang and 2024 graduate Greathomon Laowatdhanasapya died at the scene of the March 17 crash, which happened at 9:10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to a Miami Herald story, a 42-year-old man behind the wheel of a Nissan Sentra was driving recklessly in the area without headlights when he struck the two, who died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said several people had called 911 before the crash to report the Nissan&#8217;s erratic driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Adan Negron-Morris, 42, reportedly drove away from the scene, abandoned his car and was located inside a nearby Walgreens, where police arrested him. He is charged with two counts of vehicular homicide and two counts of leaving the scene of a crash involving death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kongduang, 22, was a finance major from Thailand. Her website introduces her as having &#8220;a passion for business, finance, and FinTech, with an unending thirst for knowledge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Her life goals were to &#8220;help build a brighter future for myself, my country and the world, all while adhering to the principle of &#8216;Leaving the World a Better Place than How We Found It.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Thai Student Association profile says she been president of IU&#8217;s Thai Student Association and treasurer of the Association of Thai Students in the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Laowatdhanasapya, 24, was a 2024 Kelley School graduate who worked for Bank of America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Contact H-T reporter Laura Lane at llane@heraldt.com or 812-318-5967.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldtimesonline.com\/story\/news\/accident\/2026\/03\/20\/iu-student-and-recent-grad-on-spring-break-killed-in-miami-crash\/89242122007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:IU student and recent grad on spring break killed in Miami crash;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;IU student and recent grad on spring break killed in Miami crash&quot;}\" class=\"link \">IU student and recent grad on spring break killed in Miami crash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Indiana University student and a 2024 IU grad celebrating spring break in Miami were killed Wednesday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[92158,92157,5935,92156,92159,123,125,4541,124,92155],"class_list":["post-199262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-adan-negron-morris","tag-greathomon-laowatdhanasapya","tag-indiana-university","tag-iu","tag-lisaquot-kongduang","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-herald","tag-miami-news","tag-thai-student-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}