Lincoln police said a 13-year-old girl walking with two friends Saturday night along West O Street died after being struck by a pickup.
Officers responded to Northwest 20th and West O streets around 10:30 p.m., about 1 hour after the Nebraska-Minnesota football game ended at Memorial Stadium.
Police said Sunday that girl, identified by school officials as Taylor Miller, an eighth-grader at Irving Middle School, was attempting to cross the street at the crosswalk when she was hit by a pickup headed east.
An accident report says witnesses told police Miller began running across the crosswalk when the light was still yellow. At that point, the driver of the pick-up, a 16-year-old girl, tried to stop and swerve out of the way but was unable to avoid hitting Miller.
In an email sent to parents Sunday afternoon, Irving Principal Jason Shanahan said members of the LPS Crisis Response Team would be at the school on Monday to meet with students and staff.
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"It is important that our young people have adult supervision and support as they try to cope with the sudden loss of someone so young," he said.
Miller was pronounced dead at the scene, according to emergency radio traffic on Saturday night. The students walking with Miller were not injured, the email said.
The driver's name has not been released, but Shanahan's email said it was a Lincoln Public Schools student. No one has been arrested or cited.
Police say they're looking for people who saw the collision.
The accident is still under investigation, but police said they do not suspect alcohol or drugs to be involved.Â