A Rhea County student was killed in a crash Wednesday.

Chelsea Gunter, 15, was a 9th-grade student at Rhea County High School

The Tennessee Highway Patrol said Gunter was killed in a single vehicle crash just after 8:15 pm.

The crash happened on White Flats Road in Dayton. The THP said the vehicle was traveling west when it left the roadway, ran into a ditch and flipped several times. Gunter, the backseat passenger in the vehicle, was thrown from the car.

The THP said Gunter was not wearing a seatbelt, and safety restraints would have made a difference.