US Naval Academy midshipman dies in Pa.
Saturday - 8/4/2012, 7:23pm ET
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A U.S. Naval Academy midshipman from Pennsylvania has died after a car accident.
The (Allentown) Morning Call reports 21-year-old Austin Tyler Zalik, a junior majoring in ocean engineering, died Friday in Pennsylvania's Berks County.
Authorities told the paper that Zalik had been sleeping in his pickup truck in the parking lot of a gas station before the accident at 7 a.m. Authorities said the pickup may have drifted forward as Zalik slept. The truck dropped off an embankment and into the path of a tractor-trailer.
Zalik was on the Naval Academy's gymnastics team. His biography on the team's site says he was from Allentown, Pa., and a graduate of Parkland High School.
A telephone message left Saturday for a spokesman at the U.S. Naval Academy was not immediately returned.
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Information from: The Morning Call, http://www.mcall.com
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