Albany, NY : Lafayette College student dies in New York City car crash on Thursday, March 16th 2017

A Lafayette College junior was killed in a crash crash early Thursday morning in New York City, the president of the Easton school said in a statement.

Amanda Miner was home in Brooklyn for spring break, President Alison Byerly said.

An anthropology and sociology major, Miner "just radiated niceness; she had a great, winning personality," said Professor David Shulman, her adviser, in the statement.

In class, according to Shulman, Amanda "spoke often, and had smart things to say. And she would speak her mind. If she had an opinion, she was going to offer it."

Miner was out to celebrate her 21st birthday when the crash occurred, the New York Daily News reports.

"We celebrated her 21st birthday yesterday and now I'm not going to see her graduate from college," her mother, Virginia Cabrera-Miner, told the newspaper.

Miner was a back-seat passenger in a 2013 Infiniti sedan that crashed on the Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge, WABC-7NY reports.

Both reports identify the driver as 26-year-old Stefan Hoyte, a New York Police Department traffic enforcement agent. He was taken into custody and charged with driving while intoxicated, vehicular manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, according to the ABC affiliate.

He and another traffic agent, a 24-year-old man seated in the front, escaped with minor injuries in the single-vehicle crash about 3:30 a.m., according to WABC-7NY; the force of the crash split the car in two. The bridge is just down the street from the family's home, according to the TV station's report.

Byerly, from Lafayette, said she spoke with Miner's family Thursday "and expressed deepest sympathies from all of us at the college."

A vigil is scheduled 4:15 p.m. Tuesday in Colton Chapel in Miner's memory.

Miner went on an Alternative School Break trip to New Orleans in spring 2016 for Hurricane Katrina relief, according to Lafayette.

She spent five semesters as an America Reads tutor at Third Street Alliance in Easton, where she became "one of those tutors I will always remember because she just loved the program and was so dedicated," said Christine Cohen, Lafayette's America Reads director.

"She will be greatly missed," Cohen stated.

Miner's dedication to social justice issues also led Amanda to take an upper-level seminar as a first-semester sophomore, working with teen mothers and homeless families living in shelters, according to Lafayette.

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Lafayette College student dies in New York City car crash