Car strikes students in two different locations

 
  

 

 

 

 

 

PULLMAN, Wash. – Two male students were hospitalized and a suspect held in custody following a traffic incident early Monday, Dec. 7, in which a vehicle entered the WSU campus and struck two pedestrians at separate locations along Stadium Way.

 

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The two student were reported in “stable” condition this afternoon. Their identities and that of the driver have not been released.
 
Bill Gardner, WSU Police chief, said the vehicle was reportedly operating “erratically” in the westbound lanes of SR 270 between Moscow and Pullman shortly before the entering campus. The driver apparently turned north on Stadium Way at about 7:30 a.m., and struck the first student in a crosswalk near Gannon and Goldsworthy dorms. Continuing on, the car hit the center median before striking the student on a sidewalk near Wegner Hall.
 
The vehicle then stopped at the corner of Grimes and Stadium Way, where the driver exited the car and fled before being apprehended by WSU Police in the vicinity of McCoy Hall, Gardner said.
 
The identities of the injured students and the driver have yet to be released. Gardner said that officers at the scene indicated that both students sustained multiple traumas, but that neither victims’ injuries appeared at the time to be life-threatening.
 
WSU Police, Whitman County Sheriff’s officers, state and city police are working together on the investigation.