Fourth-year charged with felony DUI
A construction worker on Assembly Street was struck early Wednesday morning by a student charged with felony DUI with great bodily injury.
Natalie Nicole Jacobson, 23, was arrested in connection with the incident after she refused field sobriety tests.
The worker, a 50-year-old man who hasn't been identified, sustained head injuries after he was hit by a car about 5 a.m. Wednesday, according to an incident report.
The car had driven over traffic cones to get into the construction area, where the man was handling traffic control. The impact lifted him from the ground.
When officers arrived, the man was conscious but didn't respond verbally; he was transported to Richland Memorial Hospital shortly thereafter.
University spokesman Wes Hickman confirmed that Jacobson is enrolled at USC as a fourth-year media arts student. Whether William Reed Pimental, a passenger in the car who was also arrested, was a student or not wasn't immediately clear Wednesday afternoon.
Jacobson had not been released from the Alvin S. Glenn as of Wednesday night.