 "Photo: Danielle Brody")
Traffic came to a standstill Monday morning when a university box truck hit a 21-year-old student on South College Avenue, according to police.
The student stepped off a shuttle bus that stopped on the northbound side of the Smith Underpass at approximately 11 a.m. and crossed the street between two parked buses into the path of the oncoming truck, said Newark police spokesman MCpl. Gerald Bryda.
"She was clipped by the mirror of that truck," Bryda said. "She received a non-life threatening injury to her head and arm and was brought to, and is currently being treated at, Christiana Hospital."
The student was released from Christiana Hospital on Monday, according to hospital employees.
Nearby bus drivers and students rushed to the student after she was hit. Newark police arrived after receiving a call from a witness on the scene, and an ambulance from Aetna Hose Hook & Ladder transported the victim to the emergency room.
Bryda said she received two summonses for failing to cross the street using a crosswalk and for leaving the curb suddenly into an oncoming vehicle.
Senior Jasmine Taylor said she was sitting on the stationery shuttle bus idling at the Smith Underpass adjacent to the area where the truck stuck the student.
"I think she was jaywalking," Taylor said. "She poked her head out, the truck beeped the horn and she skidded down."
Sophomore Anne Simpson was also on the bus when she heard other riders gasp. She said she looked out the window, and saw the girl shortly after she was hit.
"I turned around and I saw this girl just drop, then she banged her head on the pavement," Simpson said. "There was blood and she didn't move for a few seconds. It looked really bad."
The bus driver exited the bus to aid the victim, but told everyone else to stay seated, Simpson said. Buses and cars stopped as students and drivers used towels and napkins to stop the bleeding from the victim's head, Simpson said.
She said the student looked "stunned and dazed." A few minutes later, Newark police arrived, secured the student in a neck brace and lifted her into the ambulance on a stretcher.
"She started to look a little worse, and I assume she got a concussion based on how hard her head hit the pavement," Simpson said.
Students on the bus and across the street stood watching as the ambulance left. A bus driver hosed the blood off the street, and Newark police cars exited the scene.
"It was pretty crazy," Simpson said. "I'm glad she's OK."
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11 comments
First Grade you should have learned to Not walk into the street of a on coming car or truck.
Look Both ways before crossing the street.
These kids think they are made of rubber and they will bounce back I guess.
I guess the bottom line is Pay Attention People, put the phones away, put all of your focus on the cars and trucks
around you, cross the street at crosswalks only. Stop walking out in front of on going cars and trucks !!
They all deserve tickets, every single time they do it, we are talking about lives here !
Daily, Newark would be rich, these kids do this Daily, Ticket them Daily, just maybe they will stop !
I am so sick of these kids walking into the streets without looking ! Like they do not care at all ! Until you hit them and then it is your fault ! Not their fault ever. These kids never look before crossing, maybe one student out of ten.
She was given a ticket in order to prevent any lawsuit against the bus driver, the bus company, and your silly little city under enemy occupation by the University of Delaware security and the Newark finest. Your wonderful police department in Newark was simply covering their bases. And justifying why they should give future tickets in order to steal money in the future from students. The ticket was purely based on economics, and to ensure and justify stealing more funds and tution from both students, and good hard working parents of the students at the University of Delaware. In my opinion the city of Newark and the University of Delaware are under seige by a bunch of bullies, and thugs called police, security, and cops. But that's of course just my opinion. In reality the city only exist because of the students and school. The entire economy is based on stealing the student money, and their parents money. Thank you for allowing me to express my freedom of speech using the freedom of the press.