A Tulane University student was fatally struck at a rest stop on Tuesday by two wheels that had reportedly flown off a tractor-trailer. A Tulane University student was killed at a highway rest stop in Mississippi on Tuesday after a pair of tires flew off a passing tractor-trailer and struck her. The victim was Margaret Maurer, an ecology and evolutionary biology major originally from Forest Lake, Minnesota. Mauer and two friends were about to get back into their car at rest stop on eastbound I-10 in Gautier when the tires hit her, their car and a nearby SUV, authorities said. UBER WON'T FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES IN DEADLY SELF-DRIVING CAR CRASH, PROSECUTOR SAYS The tractor-trailer that struck her was traveling westbound when it lost the wheels, then turned around and drove east.