Car injures 2 LBI students
Two students at Laurel Business Institute in Uniontown were injured Monday morning, one seriously, when a car struck them. Uniontown police Capt. David J. Rutter said Barry Nicholson, 33, of Fairmont, W.Va., and Sara Coddington, 23, of Uniontown were walking across Penn Street when a car driven by William Green of Fairchance hit them.
The impact threw Nicholson onto the hood of Green’s four-door Honda sedan and then into the driver’s side windshield, Rutter said. When Green stopped his vehicle, Nicholson fell from the car and onto the street.
Green told police that he was looking at his gas gauge when he was driving on Penn Street, and when he looked up, Nicholson and Coddington were in front of him.
Nicholson was taken by Uniontown Firemen’s Ambulance to Uniontown Hospital for treatment.
Rutter said Nicholson was later flown by medical helicopter to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, W.Va., for treatment.
Rutter said that Nicholson suffered a fractured skull, a broken back in three places, broken ribs and also lost part of a toe in the accident.
Rutter said Coddington was taken to Uniontown Hospital for treatment of minor injuries to her left hand and arm.
Rutter, who is the police department’s crash reconstruction expert, closed Penn Street from Beeson Boulevard to Gallatin Avenue for about an hour while he and Officer Chuck David worked to reconstruct the crash.
David also photographed the scene, from the crosswalk at the entrance to LBI where the collision occurred to the location where Nicholson’s shoes were discovered, about 50 feet away.
Rutter said the crash remains under investigation.