An older woman drove onto campus through the LAC A quad, nearly hitting a student around 11:45 a.m. today.
“She was an elderly woman who was driving on Carson and got disoriented and turned onto here (the A quad) maybe thought these were roads and started driving on them,” police officer Kevin Stinson said.
Police detained the woman, but one of the officers on scene drove her to her doctor’s appointment and then to her home in Seal Beach.
Police have decided to keep her car on campus until somebody can safely drive it back to her home.
The driver did not make it very far through the A quad, as police officers in the quad had seen the woman and stopped her near the P building.
“We have what we call a wrong way driver here,” Stinson said.
Bystanders in the A quad expressed confusion as to what was happening.
“She could’ve ran over me and a couple other people, but I wasn’t paying attention so if it was a terrorist I’d be screwed,” witness John Henkis said.
An LBCC student who refused to give her name was at the start of the incident on Carson.
“I saw that where there’s a ramp and she went through the curb and she didn’t hit anyone but she slowed down. There was a kid, but she didn’t hit him and he just moved out of the way,” the student said.
The incident was cleared within 30 minutes.