A two-car collision on Pacific Coast Highway on Oct. 3 resulted in a Pepperdine student breaking both his legs. The driver of the other vehicle was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs.
Pepperdine DPS said that legal privacy matters prevent them from being able to release the student’s name.
“Because this was a criminal act and he was a victim, we cannot release information regarding the student,” Santa Monica Police Department Sergeant Richard Lewis said.
The student, in his mid-20s, was on his way home from school when the 32-year-old man in a 1997 Honda Accord collided with the student’s Honda Prelude twice, according to a witness who talked to investigators.
The driver of the Accord swerved in and out of lanes and struck the student’s car — sending it spinning — before hitting the student’s vehicle again head on.
The crash, which occurred around 6:35 p.m, closed down PCH southbound between the California Incline and the McClure Tunnel for two hours afterwards.
According to Lewis, both cars were totaled.