Students riding the 7 a.m. shuttle to Lake Shore Campus (LSC) on Aug. 29 were stuck waiting for almost an hour and a half after their shuttle hit a parked car.
Loyola Students Stranded After Shuttle Crash
The Loyola Intercampus Shuttle hit a parked car at the intersection of West Bryn Mawr Avenue and North Kenmore Avenue around 7:40 a.m. on Aug. 29. Students traveling to the Lake Shore Campus (LSC) for early morning classes were stuck waiting for an update and a replacement shuttle for almost an hour and a half, according to Izzie Draxler, a student on board the shuttle.
The unknown driver of the shuttle swerved right in an attempt to avoid oncoming traffic on the left side of the road which led to the collision. The accident was minor with little to no damage and did not affect any other trip times throughout the day, according to Draxler. No Loyola students on board were injured, according to Campus Transportation.
Draxler, a sophomore communications major, was one of the students on the shuttle during the accident and she said she didn’t know there had been an accident for some time.
“None of us on the bus realized that we hit the car next to us for quite a while because the bus driver didn’t say anything,” Draxler said. “She just stopped the bus, and then turned off the bus and opened both doors, and people were walking by and people were yelling from their cars for us to move and we couldn’t.”
In a report sent to The Phoenix, Gretchen Carey, senior manager of campus transportation, claimed there was no delay in service following the accident.
“An accident involving an MV Transportation operated Loyola shuttle bus occurred at Bryn Mawr and Kenmore on the morning of Aug. 29. No injuries were reported. After the accident occurred, another bus was pulled into service immediately,” Carey said in an email to The Phoenix. “Any of the passengers on the affected bus were transferred to a new bus and service resumed.”
However, Draxler remembers leaving before 7 a.m. and not arriving on campus until around 8:20 a.m. Draxler said she did not end up missing her next class that day, but she still feels inconvenienced by the whole experience.
“They say give yourself extra time, but there was no extra time that any of us could have taken,” Draxler said. “It was the first shuttle of the day. It was just frustrating I guess, that was the overall emotion. I feel like only at Loyola.”
Featured image by Victor Adegoke | The Phoenix
