Student hit by car on Comstock Avenue
A vehicle hit a student Wednesday afternoon on Comstock Avenue in front of the Theta Chi fraternity house.
He sustained non-life threatening injuries and was taken to the hospital, Department of Public Safety Chief Tony Callisto said.
‘The driver was changing lanes when the person stepped off the curb,’ Callisto said.
DPS did not issue tickets to the driver or the pedestrian, Callisto said. The driver’s name was not released.
But several Theta Chi brothers confirmed the car hit Colin Robinson, a brother in the house.
Right after the accident, Mike Smith, one of the brothers in the Theta Chi house, said he went out to Robinson. He declined to comment on the incident further.
Jared Lanphere, a senior in the Theta Chi house, said Robinson did not appear to be badly injured immediately following the incident. Lanphere watched as Smith went out to help his friend.
‘He had him up against a tree,’ said Lanphere, an economics and entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises major. ‘He was bleeding a little bit.’
Lanphere had seen Robinson walk out of the Theta Chi house several minutes before he saw Robinson being hit, he said.
Several DPS squad cars and an ambulance lined the street around 12:45 p.m. The windshield of the car that hit the student, a Kia Sorento, was smashed in on the left side.
A teary-eyed girl was taking pictures of the windshield and talking on the phone after the incident. She declined to speak for the article.
‘It’s a very busy pedestrian area,’ Callisto said. ‘And, certainly, we encourage both the drivers and pedestrians to be mindful of each other.’
In April, an ambulance side mirror hit a student who stepped off the curb on Comstock Avenue around 11:55 p.m., according to an article published in The Daily Orange on April 6. The incident occurred after a party at Sigma Phi Epsilon let out.
The student, a senior at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, was treated at the hospital for minor injuries, according to the article.
Published on September 1, 2010 at 12:00 pm
