ANN ARBOR, Mich. (97.1 The Ticket) -- The wife and daughter of University of Wisconsin assistant basketball coach Howard Moore were killed by a wrong-way driver early Saturday morning near Ann Arbor.
Michigan State Police confirmed that Moore and his family were struck by a driver heading west along the eastbound lanes of M-14 near Ford Road around 2 a.m. Saturday. His 9-year-old daughter, Jaidyn, was pronounced dead at the scene and his 46-year-old wife, Jennifer, later died at a hospital. Moore and his son, 13-year-old Jerell, sustained non-life threatening injuries in the crash.
Wisconsin basketball released a statement on the crash, saying "Our hearts are with them and we, as a community, will support and lift up the entire family."
Countless members of the college basketball community took to social media to offer their condolences to the Moore family and Wisconsin basketball.
Police identified the wrong-way driver as 23-year-old Samantha Winchester of Ann Arbor. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Officials say Winchester worked at Barton Hills Country Club in Ann Arbor, but it is unclear if she was working that night.
Police first received a call about a vehicle heading westbound in the eastbound lanes of M-14 near Ford Road at 2:02 a.m. Saturday. One minute later, another call came in about a crash in the same location.
Howard is in his second stint as an assistant coach for the Badgers. He played at Wisconsin from 1990-95 before holding several assistant positions, including at Wisconsin from 2005-2010. He took the head coaching job at the University of Illinois Chicago in 2010 and returned to Madison in 2015.
