A car accident on South Stadium Drive left four students injured and an Easy Streets booth damaged Monday at approximately 4:30 p.m.The accident occurred when engineering sophomore Dat Tran and three passengers were approaching the Easy Streets booth on South Stadium Drive near Tiger Stadium. Ashley Sylestine, communication disorders sophomore, said she was walking toward Nicholson Drive when she saw Tran’s Toyota Camry struck on the rear driver’s side by a black Nissan Xterra.Tran said he was looking straight forward and didn’t notice the Nissan coming from the West Stadium parking lot until it was too late.Tran said he tried to brake, but couldn’t, before swerving into a concrete pylon and wrecking part of the small brick wall surrounding the booth.Sylestine said she immediately called 911.LSU Police Department and the EMS arrived within minutes because the wreck was close to the Public Safety Building.Though all four students wore seat belts and both airbags deployed, all moderately were injured. Most had bloodied noses and swollen faces.”It happened so fast,” Tran said. “It was like getting hit with a pillow, a hard pillow. A hard pillow with bricks in it.”The Nissan had only minor front-end damage, and the female driver did not need immediate medical attention from the EMS.The driver refused to comment on the accident or provide her name.Phuong Nguyen, computer engineering sophomore, was sitting in the back seat on the passenger side. He was bleeding from his nose after the wreck but said he didn’t feel much pain.David Huynh, electrical engineering sophomore, was unavailable for comment because he was inside an ambulance with a neck brace, Nguyen said.Kevin Truong, electrical engineering sophomore, eventually limped out of the ambulance on a hurt leg.Truong said he and his friends were on their way to Highland Dining Hall when they were hit.”We were just four happy-go-lucky guys looking forward to some blackened chicken pasta, and then a car just came out of nowhere,” Truong said. “It all blacks out from there.”LSUPD was unable to comment on the wreck while at the scene and said the information would have to be processed before they could provide a statement.The University was unavailable to comment on the extent of the damage caused by the wreck by press time.—-Contact Adam Duvernay at [email protected]