A dark blue Honda Accord, driven by a woman who was transported to UCI Medical Center rests on the curb of Folino Drive between the dorms and Eastside Parking Structure on Monday afternoon. The driver of the white Ford Explorer, Samantha Witherspoon, was not injured. (Tim Worden / Daily Titan)
One woman was transported to the hospital after a two-car T-bone collision smashed the driver’s side of her car near Eastside Parking Structure Monday afternoon.
The collision occurred on Folino Drive between the dorms and Eastside Parking Structure around 2:07 p.m. and the woman was transported to UCI Medical Center, according to University Police Capt. John Brockie.
She was transported around 2:20 p.m.
Samantha Witherspoon, 18, an undeclared major, was driving south down Folino Drive, which runs parallel to the 57 Freeway, when she hit a car that was turning right onto Folino from the parking lot.
Witherspoon, driving a white Ford Explorer at around 20 mph, saw the woman who was driving a dark blue Honda Accord at the last second, she said.
Witherspoon then hit the woman directly on the woman’s driver’s side door, she said.
Witherspoon said she and witnesses at the scene saw the woman clutching her head after the impact, but that the woman was able to talk to the witnesses and was not bleeding.
“She was taken to the (hospital), but she was conscious,” Witherspoon said.
“I didn’t see any cuts or anything,” she added.
According to a University Police officer at the scene, the woman “(had a) good bump on the head because she was T-boned, so her head hit the window.”
The entire left side of the car was smashed inward and the driver’s window was shattered. The impact pushed the car about three feet into a patch of bushes on a divider island off Folino.
It is unknown whether the injured woman was a Cal State Fullerton student and her condition was not known as of early Monday evening.
UCI Medical Center is unable to provide patient information if the name is not known, John Murray, media relations manager for UCI Medical Center, said.