The SUV came to a stop in the bushes off of Seawolf Drive next to the Allied Health Sciences Building. Photo by Kaitlyn Gaub.
A woman driving a SUV hit two parked vehicles in the West Campus Central Parking Lot before driving off the road and into the bushes next to Seawolf Drive on Monday, Sept. 9.
UPD Chief Jeff Earle said the woman hit the two cars before coming to a stop off the road. He said that she was arrested on a charge of DUI.
Chief Earle said that no one was injured.
One of the damaged cars is “Black Beauty,” a beloved Audi that belongs to Dr. Terry Nelson, Interim Dean for the College of Business and Public Policy.
Nelson said she heard a crashing sound from her office in Rasmuson Hall.
“I heard squealing tires. And I said, ‘Who’s driving crazy?’ Then I heard a crash, and I looked down, I said, ‘Oh, they hit something … That’s my car. They hit Black Beauty.’”
Nelson said she looked out of her office window and saw that somebody had just hit her car.
“I immediately came down,” she said. “But by the time I got down here, they had left, but evidently they didn't make it too far.”
The other damaged vehicle in the parking lot belongs to a UAA student who said they were in class and did not witness anything.
Story updated on September 16, 2024.
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