UPDATE: May 3, 2012, 1:01 a.m.

An Express Taxi cab struck a woman at approximately 10 p.m. Wednesday on the 700 block of Comstock Avenue. The woman is currently in critical condition, said Sgt. Gary Bulinski of the Syracuse Police Department.
The driver of the cab car, a 2002 Mercury Sedan, was traveling southbound down the street while the 21-year-old woman was walking westbound. The woman suffered a head injury and was immediately driven away from the scene by an ambulance to Upstate University Hospital. The woman was referred to as a student by officials at the scene.
Six SPD cars, five Department of Public Safety vehicles, three emergency transport vehicles and two fire trucks arrived at the scene at 10 p.m. SPD officers have blocked off the street from the intersection of Comstock Avenue and University Place to the intersection of Comstock and Euclid avenues. The street remains closed.
The driver was given a sobriety test. The SPD Crime Scene Unit arrived at 11 p.m. to take photographs and investigate remaining evidence of the accident.
Matt Dick, a sophomore on the pre-law track and brother of Sigma Phi Epsilon, said the woman was hit after crossing the street. After the accident, her body was caught around a street sign located between the Theta Chi and Sig Ep houses on Comstock Avenue.
‘She was wrapped around the sign and wasn’t moving,’ Dick said. ‘Her clothes had to get cut off because she couldn’t get up, and it took 20 minutes to get her on a stretcher.’
The investigation remains in the preliminary stages, Bulinski said. No names have been released as of press time.
meltagou@syr.edu