A woman who was only trying to transport a mattress to another location on a moving van, has ended up suffering a fatal fate.
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A woman from Prince William County in Virginia, USA, has died.
Police say the woman was riding on an unsecured mattress on top of a passenger van when she she was killed.
She died when the mattress and herself fell off the vehicle.
According to WFLD, the department said in a news release that 20-year-old Sidney Zelaya Gonzalez of Culpeper was riding on the mattress about 6:40 a.m. Friday in Haymarket.
Officers say while the van was traveling on Waverly Farm Drive, the mattress and Gonzalez came off the van. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police say the van driver, a 41-year-old woman from Culpeper they did not identify, stayed at the scene of the incident.
Officer Nathan Probus is a spokesman for Prince William County police.
He tells The Washington Post that the women were trying to transport the mattress.