An SU student was hospitalized following a two-car collision at about 6:10 p.m. Tuesday near Kimmel Dining Center, said Syracuse Police officer T. Murfitt.

Michelle Quinones, a sophomore nutrition science major, was driving north through the intersection of Comstock Avenue and Waverly Avenue toward Kimmel, when a man driving a pickup truck east on Waverly Avenue struck Quinones’ car in the rear driver’s side, Quinones said.

Quinones said her white Honda Accord then spun and made a 180 degree turn.

‘Both of them said that they had a green light,’ said Murfitt.

The driver of the pickup truck and his passenger were not students, Murfitt said.

Quinones said she suffered a neck and back strain and was taken to South Crouse Hospital by Syracuse University Ambulances at about 6:40 p.m,.

Quinones was in fair condition at 8 p.m. Tuesday, said Karen Haines, the nursing supervisor on duty at the hospital.

‘She was talking and seemed fine,’ said Tyrell Bell, a sophomore entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises major and friend of Quinones. He met her at the hospital shortly after she arrived.

The two passengers of the vehicle were uninjured, said Lt. Joe Cecile.

Quinones said she was released from the hospital at about 9:30 p.m.

Published on February 17, 2004 at 12:00 pm