A University student flipped her car and suffered minor injuries after crashing into an Easy Streets gate arm Thursday night. Meghan McElwee, kinesiology senior, was returning to campus on North Stadium Drive from West Stadium parking lot at 8:32 p.m. when she momentarily lost attention to the road, said Chirag Patel, a kinesiology freshman who had been studying in Middleton Library with McElwee and was driving ahead of her.Patel said he heard a loud thud and lost sight of the lights from McElwee’s 2008 Ford Fusion after he passed the gate arms.McElwee, the vehicle’s only passenger, was seemingly uninjured except a cut lip, Patel said. The car flipped, but the airbags did not deploy.A concrete pylon, the wooden gate arms and the electrical mechanisms that operate the arms were all damaged.Sgt. Blake Tabor, LSU Police Department spokesman, said no charges are pending against McElwee. Following the accident, another University student was taken into temporary custody for disobeying officers’ orders while taking pictures of the accident.He “passively resisted” officers telling him to move from the immediate scene, Tabor said.LSUPD released the student and did not charge him, Tabor said.- – – -Contact Adam Duvernay at [email protected]