Louisiana State University 18-year-old freshman pole vaulter Dillon Reidenauer died this week in a vehicle collision that also killed the motorcyclist involved.

At 9:07 p.m. Wednesday, Bodhi Linton, 23, was cycling northbound on a road in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when Ms. Reidenauer, driving a Honda Accord going southbound, tried to make a left turn.

The two vehicles collided and both parties died at the scene, the Baton Rouge Police Department said in a release.

The motorcycle T-boned the Accord, and both vehicles burst into flames, according to local station WBRZ-TV.

The police didn’t identify Ms. Reidenauer in their release, but LSU named her as the driver in their own statement Thursday.

“Everyone in our LSU Track & Field family is keeping Dillon’s loved ones in our thoughts and prayers, as well as those of the other individual lost in the incident,” LSU track and field coach Dennis Shaver said in a statement.

Ms. Reidenauer was a top high school athlete, finishing second outdoors at the Louisiana High School Athletic Association State Championship and earning a bronze medal in the indoor pole vault.

Students and staff at Ms. Reidenauer’s high school in Mandeville also mourned her death.

“It was a very somber day. It’s difficult to process — losing someone so quickly like that,” Fontainebleau High track coach Sam Sanders told New Orleans’ Times-Picayune.

Mr. Linton’s friends and family are also mourning his loss, which comes less than a year after his mother died in a motorcycle accident herself.

“[When] she passed, he had to grieve. He was a mama’s boy. He ended up getting this bike. That’s how he coped. He was really unique; he was himself at all times,” Mr. Linton’s brother Jeremy Saltzman told WBRZ.

• Brad Matthews can be reached at bmatthews@washingtontimes.com.