Lady Fury
12-07-2009, 03:18 PM
I went to take Darrin to class and the road in front of my work building was closed. We had a good idea that it might be before we headed up to campus because WSU sent out an email to all students and staff shortly after it happened. If you click the link you'll see the brick building in the background. That's my lab building. Anyways, both students are alive but in serious condition at the moment.
Link (http://www.wsutoday.wsu.edu/pages/publications.asp?Action=Detail&PublicationID=17217&TypeID=1)
PULLMAN - Two WSU students were injured this morning in a suspected vehicular assault in which they were struck in two different locations by a single car. WSU Police Lieutenant Steve Hansen said the injured students were transported to Pullman Memorial Hospital and the suspected driver to Pullman City Police Department..
Blood tests were being requested on the suspect.
Bill Gardner, WSU Police chief, said the driver of the car was reported driving "erratically" in the westbound lane of Highway 270 between Moscow and Pullman. The driver apparently turned northeast on Stadium Way at about 7:30 a.m., and struck one male student at the crosswalk near Gannon and Goldsworthy dorms. Continuing on, the car hit the center median and then struck a second male student on a sidewalk near Wegner Hall.
The car, a silver-colored Pontiac with its front window crushed and shattered and a front right tire blown out, then stopped at the corner of Grimes and Stadium Way. The driver got out of the car and ran away. Police pursued the driver and caught him behind McCoy Hall, Gardner said.
Even after apprehended, Gardner said, the suspect continued to fight law enforcement officers. Even after he was transported to a Pullman Police Department holding area, he continues to be combative.
Gardner said, the police contacted the driver's wife and mother who said he had been acting erratically for the past two days.
Identities of the injured students and the driver have not been released yet.
It is believed the first student sustained head and leg trauma, Gardner said. The second student sustained severe leg and arm trauma. An official report from the hospital is pending.
WSU Police, Whitman County Sheriff's officers, state and city police are working together on the investigation and have the northbound lanes of Stadilum Way blocked off.
Although one lane southbound is open, it is recommended that drivers avoid Stadium Way from Grimes to Nevada.
Link (http://www.wsutoday.wsu.edu/pages/publications.asp?Action=Detail&PublicationID=17217&TypeID=1)
PULLMAN - Two WSU students were injured this morning in a suspected vehicular assault in which they were struck in two different locations by a single car. WSU Police Lieutenant Steve Hansen said the injured students were transported to Pullman Memorial Hospital and the suspected driver to Pullman City Police Department..
Blood tests were being requested on the suspect.
Bill Gardner, WSU Police chief, said the driver of the car was reported driving "erratically" in the westbound lane of Highway 270 between Moscow and Pullman. The driver apparently turned northeast on Stadium Way at about 7:30 a.m., and struck one male student at the crosswalk near Gannon and Goldsworthy dorms. Continuing on, the car hit the center median and then struck a second male student on a sidewalk near Wegner Hall.
The car, a silver-colored Pontiac with its front window crushed and shattered and a front right tire blown out, then stopped at the corner of Grimes and Stadium Way. The driver got out of the car and ran away. Police pursued the driver and caught him behind McCoy Hall, Gardner said.
Even after apprehended, Gardner said, the suspect continued to fight law enforcement officers. Even after he was transported to a Pullman Police Department holding area, he continues to be combative.
Gardner said, the police contacted the driver's wife and mother who said he had been acting erratically for the past two days.
Identities of the injured students and the driver have not been released yet.
It is believed the first student sustained head and leg trauma, Gardner said. The second student sustained severe leg and arm trauma. An official report from the hospital is pending.
WSU Police, Whitman County Sheriff's officers, state and city police are working together on the investigation and have the northbound lanes of Stadilum Way blocked off.
Although one lane southbound is open, it is recommended that drivers avoid Stadium Way from Grimes to Nevada.