Staff Writer
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| Sheriffs block traffic as they wait for a tow truck to arrive/ Photo by Kat Wilson |
A minor collision occurred in Parking Lot 3 at 1:51 pm on Monday, Mar. 12, when a student pulled her Ford Fusion forward to make a left turn and crashed into a Jeep Liberty that was passing another car parked in the road behind one of the Fine Arts buildings (FA3).
Tiffany Jameson said she had looked both ways before starting to turn, when “all of a sudden she was there.” Jameson said her foot hit the brake but slipped, and she smacked into the rear right end of the Jeep with her Fusion’s front left fender.
“If she hadn’t come around that other car … there was no way I would have hit her,” Jameson said.
The driver of the Jeep was an AVC student’s mother, Jameson said, who was rushing to drop her daughter off for a class.
Jameson said the woman was very angry and unwilling to share her insurance information until the Sheriffs showed up. Since it was a non-injurious accident, the owner of the Jeep was allowed to leave after the exchange was made.
David Hoofe, a Sheriff Security Officer, said the Jeep got away with “just a scratch.”
The impact hit Jameson’s Fusion just right, however. The front section cracked from side to side and the entire left fender fell off, taking the license plate down with it.The fiberglass for the left headlight laid shattered on the asphalt.
“I’m hoping it’s just body work,” Jameson said. “I don’t see any fluids so that tells me the radiator wasn’t hit.”
The two driver’s stories conflicted in some areas. Jameson said she never heard the woman honk her horn in warning, but found out after several phone calls that the other driver had told her insurance company she had.
“The insurance (companies) will figure it out,” Sheriff Security Officer Alex Alfaro said, and further predicted that an insurance investigator will probably have to come out to solve the issue.
