The Morgan County victim in a fatal Florida car crash has been identified as Krystle Noel.


The 17-year-old girl was killed Monday morning when the eastbound car she was a passenger in, driven by Lisa Parsons, 18, of Martinsville, collided with a westbound tractor-trailer on Florida State Road 40 at 8:32 a.m., according to a spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol.


Noel was pronounced dead at the scene.


Parsons was critically injured and flown to Orlando Regional Medical Center, said Heather Danenhower, spokeswoman for Marion County, Fla., Fire Rescue.


Noel had lived with Janice Duncan, her grandmother, until Christmas. Since then, she had been living at a foster home in Indianapolis, Duncan said.


Noel had been a gymnast and a cheerleader, Duncan said. Noel had attended Martinsville High School, and had received a GED.


"She was very talented," Duncan said. "She was a sweet, loving daughter."


Duncan said the girl was 17-years-old and would have been 18 in March.


According to a Morgan County Sheriff's Department report, a relative said Noel had run away from the foster home.


Florida police were unable to identify the body at first. When they contacted the mother of Lisa Parsons, she named a girl who turned out to be in Morgan County. That girl said that the person with Lisa Parsons was Krystle Noel.


Duncan confirmed from a photo that the crash victim was her granddaughter.


Noel's body had been forced by the impact of the crash into the back of the vehicle Parsons was driving, Duncan said.


"The SUV was extremely mangled," Danenhower said.


The driver of the other vehicle wasn't injured.


Traffic was diverted for several hours following the accident, according to the highway patrol spokesman.


Parsons condition at the Orlando Regional Medical Center was unavailable by press time today.