A blue Nissan Altima hit the side of a beige Honda Civic on the corner of Comstock and Waverly avenues Sunday night.

The driver of the 2008 Altima, En Wu, a Syracuse University student, lost control of his car when he was turning right onto Comstock Avenue and hit the 2003 Civic owned by Eahar Zaker-Sakral, 33, said Sgt. Gary Bulinski of the Syracuse Police Department.

Witnesses saw the driver speeding before turning right onto Comstock Avenue.

“He flew around the corner– like flew –and couldn’t complete the turn, so he struck the side of the car and flew up on to the bank here,” said Hailey Temple, a sophomore information management and technology and public relations major.

Krysta Kirby, a sophomore biology major, said the driver of the Altima passed two other cars before turning right onto Comstock Avenue.

“He was almost on two wheels no doubt,” she said.

Bulinski described the collision as a “minor accident.” There was some damage to the driver’s side of the Honda Civic.

Di Gai, a passenger in the Altima, said he did not know how the accident happened, but that the driver was driving straight. He said he thinks there might have been a problem with the car.

“I don’t know, maybe some problem with the wheel that makes the car slide on the road and hit the front part of the car,” Gai said. “ I just closed my eyes and I was here.”

Zaker-Sakral and Wu both declined to comment.

No tickets were issued to either of the drivers, Bulinski said.

Published on October 21, 2012 at 7:40 pm

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