A female Syracuse University student suffered no injuries Tuesday evening when the vehicle she was driving crashed into a tree and flipped over on the 900 block of Comstock Avenue near the entrance to the Comstock Art Facility.

The accident occurred after the driver swerved to avoid hitting the car in front of her, which suddenly slammed on its brakes, said Syracuse Police Department officer Jeremy Baldwin. Airbags deployed during the accident.

The unidentified student was able to crawl out of the silver Jeep Grand Cherokee unharmed, but was a bit disoriented, Baldwin said. The Department of Public Safety, SPD and SU Ambulance responded to the scene at approximately 6:55 p.m. SUA responders carried the student away in a stretcher to evaluate her condition as a precautionary measure, he said. There were no other passengers in the car.

Traffic, which included buses and cars headed toward campus for Tuesday’s men’s basketball game, stopped in both directions for about 25 minutes as police officers surveyed the scene and waited for a tow truck, said Marie Glavin, a security worker for the Oakwood Cemetery Office during SU games.

Flares were set up around the vehicle, which was upside down with the whole front end smashed in. The driver’s side window was also shattered.

‘It looks much worse than it is,’ Glavin said.

Backed up traffic was directed down Acorn Path, a narrow road off the 900 block of Comstock that lets out on Circle Drive near Stratford Street, where police officers were also stationed.

egsawyer@syr.edu

Published on November 15, 2011 at 12:00 pm

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