Written by Will Lewis

Two cars collided outside of Centennial Hall in the early evening on Thursday.

The accident occurred as Joshua Warner, accounting and finance major, was leaving the parking lot to go to a meeting on North Campus.

 “I was pulling out to the stop sign by Centennial, and [Kourtney Harris] swerved in,” Warner said. “And I guess he turned in too fast and he lost control of his car and […] hit me from the side.”

 Harris, a VSU political science major, said he struck Warner while swerving to avoid the accident.

“I see a car at the stop sign and he goes out too far, and he’s about to go out and try to hit me,” Harris said. “So, I swerve and try to get away from it, and as soon as I am trying to swerve back I hit his car.”

 Harris was later heard telling his father, who arrived on the scene minutes after the accident, that he might have been in Warner’s lane at the time of the collision.

Among the first witnesses to arrive were the students on the VSU green line bus.

Siedah Cassell, mass media major, was the first to notify the police about the accident.

 “I was on the shuttle pulling in by the Rec, and I didn’t actually see the accident happen,” Cassell said. “But, I saw the two cars had actually hit each other, and [Warner] was standing over there kind of distraught. And, being a concerned citizen, I decided to call the police because I didn’t see anyone else doing anything.”

 After the accident Warner exited his car, and could be seen pacing around the scene during the time before the police arrived.

Officer James Holcomb of the VSU Police Department was the first to arrive on the scene, followed shortly by members of both the Valdosta Fire Department andEMS.

First responders from the fire department refused to comment.

Neither driver was transported by EMS to the hospital.