Fraternity brother struck by car, transported to hospital
UPDATED: Feb. 6, 2:25 a.m. EST
A car struck a Syracuse University student and member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity while he crossed Comstock Avenue at about 10:30 p.m. Sunday.
More than a dozen uniformed personnel including emergency medical technicians, police officers and firefighters surveyed the scene of the accident, which took place in front of Sammy’s fraternity house. The student was loaded onto a stretcher and into an ambulance that left the scene at about 10:40 p.m.
The student was hospitalized with a broken leg and expected to be fine, said Craig Leppert, prior of the Eta chapter of Sammy who accompanied the student to the hospital. The student was returning to the Sammy house after studying, Leppert said. Leppert declined to release the name of the student.
Several fire trucks, police cars and two ambulances blocked traffic that attempted to move down Comstock. The car that struck the student, a dark blue Chevrolet Cobalt, was pulled off to the side of the road with its hazard lights on. The female driver remained inside until she emerged to speak with police at about 10:50 p.m.
Sarah Aument, a senior television, radio and film major, said she witnessed the car strike the student while driving in the opposite direction on Comstock. She said she was traveling toward Euclid Avenue as the Cobalt was driving toward University Place.
The driver of the Cobalt hit the student’s leg as he was attempting to cross the road, Aument said. When the student saw the car coming toward him, he tried to run and speed up, but he could not make it to the sidewalk in time. Although the driver of the Cobalt slowed down before the impact, she was not able to stop and ran over the student’s leg, she said.
‘He hit the ground in the middle of the lane and then crawled over to the side,’ Aument said.
Aument said she pulled off to the side of the road after seeing the accident and went to the scene. After she got there, several fraternity brothers came out of the house and down to the street. She said since one of the brothers is an EMT, he began to monitor the situation and the student while Aument called 911.
Police officers stayed on the scene until after 11 p.m. but allowed traffic to continue on Comstock. They declined to comment.
—Editor in Chief Dara McBride contributed reporting to this article.
Published on February 5, 2012 at 12:00 pm
