A car hit a female Boston University student on Sunday evening when she was crossing a road in Vernon, Conn., according to a local police report.
Cassandre Marie Plantin, a College of Arts and Sciences junior from Westbury, N.Y., was walking to catch a bus back to BU when the car hit her at about 7 p.m., said BU spokesman Colin Riley.
The Hartford Courant reported that Plantin was crossing a “busy part of the road near a McDonalds and a Burger King restaurant.”
She was then taken to a local hospital by ground ambulance then airlifted to Hartford Hospital, the Courant said. The motorist’s car has been seized and he is cooperating with police, according to the story.
Plantin’s friend Francis Pina, a CAS alum, said Plantin is a devoted member of the X-ception dance team at BU.
“She’s been doing it since her freshman year, since I met her,” he said. “I know she’s helping to run it and that’s where a lot of her passion has been. Overall, she’s a really easygoing person. I know she’s really honest and loves to have fun.”
College of Communication student Chantal Alleyne, who is co-president of the X-ception dance team, said Plantin is doing “much better.”
“She’s awake and conscious but just very drowsy,” she said in an email. “She’s a great person with a big heart who deserves nothing but the best. She might be in pain now, but she’s a fighter and I’m 100 percent sure she’ll be back soon better than ever.”
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