A UNC student sustained injuries Thursday afternoon from a collision with a dump truck, according to the university.

The Daily Tar Heel reported a crash happened between a student on a bicycle and a turning dump truck shortly before 2 p.m. After the student was struck near the intersection of Cameron Avenue and Pittsboro Street, they were later transported to the hospital, according to the student newspaper. UNC Media Relations confirmed the collision to Chapelboro on Friday, saying both the dump truck and bicycling student were traveling eastbound on Cameron Avenue before crashing during a right-hand turn.

According to photos from the Daily Tar Heel, UNC Police and Chapel Hill Fire and Rescue officers responded to the scene. A statement from UNC to Chapelboro said the incident is under investigation by university police, but that the university did not “currently know the condition of the student” as of Friday afternoon.

Thursday’s collision came just hours before a different crash in Chapel Hill — which was with a pedestrian and proved to be fatal. Chapel Hill Police said a pedestrian in the road along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Perkins Drive died after being struck by a driver shortly after 9:14 p.m. The incident remains under investigation as of Friday afternoon, but a police spokesperson confirmed the driver is not facing charges from the collision.

The Chapel Hill biking community also experienced a different crash and difficult loss earlier this year. Nicholas Watson died in February from injuries sustained when a motorist tried to exit their vehicle and opened their door as Watson was riding by. Weeks later, the town government adopted a dooring ordinance to formally charge people with a misdemeanor for unsafely opening vehicle doors into the paths of bicyclists.

From 2017-2021, the Town of Chapel Hill says it has reported 192 crashes between vehicles and bicycles or vehicles and pedestrians. In that time, five of the bicyclists or pedestrians died, while another 11 experienced serious injury. Additional statistics can be found at the town’s Vision Zero page, which is part of Chapel Hill’s resolution to “eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2031.”

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