On Sept. 18, a Winthrop driver hit the fence between Myrtle Drive and Oakland Avenue after having left the Dacus library, according to a police report from the Winthrop University Police Department.
“The suspect stated that he was a diabetic and had been at the Dacus Library, that he did not remember hitting the fence or brick column,” according to the Winthrop University Police Department’s report.
The driver was “infested with bedbugs” and the EMS workers who were dispatched to the scene “advised having the Library shut down for treatment.” The student fled the scene and was found by the reporting officer on the steps of a home on Sumter Ave and he “appeared to be very much disoriented.”
The student was taken to Piedmont Medical Center for evaluation where they determined he had bedbugs and that the Dacus Library should be treated accordingly.
There were two witnesses to the accident and they said that the driver continued to drive recklessly after hitting the fence. However, they said that he did not hit anything else although he swerved on and off of the road until reaching his home on Sumter Ave.
The first witness was Jasmin Reyes who said that after the driver was able to get out of the fence that he had been stuck in, she followed him until he reached his home. She also said that “he was swerving and driving without his headlights on.”
Emily Ann Katos also witnessed the accident after having left Bancroft Hall. She said that she “heard a loud bang” and that the driver hit the fence twice before fleeing the scene.
The driver had been in the Dacus Library twice on the night of Sept. 18. Due to the bedbugs found on the driver, there was a work order placed on the Dacus Library and the brick pillar in front of campus.
The driver is not being charged, according to the police report, because he “appeared to be having a diabetic issue.”
