A Laguna Beach woman's death Sunday night along a stretch of Interstate 95 in South Carolina is being called a suicide, according to WSAV-TV, an NBC outlet based in Savannah, Georgia.
Leah Louise Becker, 54, of Laguna Beach, was a passenger in a car when police say she unbuckled her seat belt and intentionally stepped out of the moving vehicle being driven by her brother. She was then struck and killed by a tractor trailer truck in the next lane.
No charges were filed against the woman's brother or the truck driver.
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