Student struck by bike

A student was struck by a bicyclist on campus yesterday morning while walking to class. \nSophomore Alyssa Meeker apparently did not see junior Michael Burr when she was crossing the street between the Indiana Memorial Union and the Chemistry building, IUPD officer Deb Delay said.\nIUPD received word of the accident at 10:49 Tuesday morning, and an officer was there within two minutes of notification, Laury Flint of IUPD said. All four officers that were on duty went to the scene of the accident, she said. \nMeeker, who is from New Palestine, Ind., was taken by an ambulance to Bloomington Hospital, where she received stitches to her eyebrow and her lip. Her roommate, junior Anne Casperson, said she also lost part of a tooth and has several abrasions on her face. \nBurr tried to swerve to avoid hitting Meeker but said he thinks that when they collided his body hit hers, causing her injuries. When they landed, he landed on top of her, and she hit her head hard on the blacktop, Delay said. Meeker was given a CAT scan at the hospital, she said. \nCasperson said the cyclist was coming at a high speed, and there was no way he could stop. Meeker was knocked unconscious and does not remember the accident. She was released from Bloomington Hospital at around 3:30 p.m., she said. \nMeeker's parents came to Bloomington and took her to the dentist to fix her tooth when she left the hospital, Casperson said.\nBurr was not injured in the accident.\nDelay did not want to blame one particular party for the accident. She credited it to "inattention on everyone's part."\nCasperson agreed that the incident was no one's fault. \n"It was an accidental thing," she said. "There was nothing he or she could have done."\nDelay said that pedestrians need to understand that "it doesn't matter if you have the right of way, you never come out the winner."\nPeople should pay more attention when walking on campus, she said.\n"I wish that didn't happen, it's so congested over there; people just have to be careful," Delay said.