ESTELL MANOR – A young woman from Egg Harbor Township was killed Tuesday, Dec. 11 when a utility truck struck her car at the intersection of Tuckahoe and Cumberland roads in Estell Manor, according to police.

Lora E. Pacheco, 18, was pronounced dead at the scene just after 11 p.m. by Ralph Henkel of the Atlantic County Medical Examiner’s Office, police said.

She was traveling east on Cumberland Road in a red Volkswagen Golf around 8:27 p.m., according to state police from the Woodbine barracks, when she failed to yield at a stop sign and was struck by a Ford S750 utility truck operated by Daniel P. Enders of Vineland, who was traveling north.

Police said Pacheco was not wearing a seat belt.

The state police Crime Unit and Fatal Accident Team were also on the scene. The accident is under investigation.

Pacheco’s obituary described her as a fun-loving and spirited young woman.

She studied dance with the Arts of the Dance and Music Center in Vineland for 11 years focusing on jazz, ballet, tap, Irish tap, ballroom, Hawaiian, acrobatics and musical theatre.