A sport utility vehicle was flipped upside down after it and another car collided on the corner of Ostrom Avenue and University Place Saturday at about 9:30 p.m.

The accident occurred when the driver of a white Dorian’s Pizza delivery truck hit the passenger side of a silver Chevrolet Equinox occupied by a driver and passenger, causing it to flip.

The Syracuse Fire Department, Syracuse Police Department, SU Public Safety, Syracuse Ambulance and Syracuse University Ambulance arrived at the scene, blocking off the street.

No one appeared to be seriously injured, said Lindsay Smith, a junior political science major. Smith said she saw the driver of the Chevrolet get out of the car on his own and his passenger appeared to be OK after she was helped out of the car by a passer-by. She was then taken into an ambulance.

The SUV appeared to be totaled, while the van had less extensive damage.

More than 100 Syracuse University students and spectators, presumably from the SU men’s basketball game, gathered around the scene of the accident minutes after it occurred.

Who was at fault in the accident is up in the air, as witnesses offered contradicting explanations.

The delivery truck driver paced around the scene visibly distressed.

‘I was coming down the hill,’ he said, describing his drive down Ostrom Avenue towards Euclid Avenue. ‘(The Chevrolet) came at me out of the park,’ he said, adding the vehicle had come the wrong way out of a one-way street.

‘She was screaming,’ The delivery truck driver said of the Chevrolet’s passenger. ‘She was upside down in there. I felt so bad.’

The crowd disappeared by 11 p.m. The SUV was towed and the major pieces of glass were cleaned up.

Published on December 2, 2006 at 12:00 pm