A Binghamton University student was hit by a car yesterday morning as she walked on the crosswalk on the campus’s connector road west of Hinman College, police said.

Cathy Khouri, 20, was walking toward center campus at 11:50 a.m. when a northbound 1994 blue Jeep Cherokee struck her, causing her to spin around and fall to the ground. She suffered a sore neck and deep scrapes on her elbow and knees. Harpur’s Ferry ambulance transported her to Lourdes Hospital, where she was treated and released the same day.

According to Khouri, after the accident the driver told her, ‘I’m sorry. Sometimes I can’t control my foot.’

The driver, a 22-year-old female, was ticketed for failing to yield to a pedestrian in the crosswalk. She will appear in Vestal Town Court Thursday, Nov. 1 at 5:30 p.m. Police did not release her name and could not say if she was a student.

The driver was not injured and her Jeep was not damaged.

Khouri, a junior philosophy, politics and law major, was on her way from her apartment in Hillside Community to study in the library.

‘I saw a car coming down from the right,’ she said. ‘It looked like it was going really fast, so I wasn’t going to cross.’

The car stopped as Khouri waited at the crosswalk between parking Lot L and Lot M. But as she crossed the road, she heard ‘an engine rev up,’ she said. ‘I started thinking, ‘What the hell is going on?’

Khouri turned toward the car and instinctively put her arms out. The car jutted forward, sending her about two feet forward and landing her on her knees and elbow, she said.

‘Afterwards, I was so hysterical,’ Khouri said. ‘I was crying.’

The driver apologized ‘profusely,’ Khouri said. ‘I think she said, ‘I’m going to class. I can drive you to class.’

Khouri said she is ‘very shaken up about the situation.’

Earlier this month, another BU student was struck on campus.

A 19-year-old male bicyclist was crossing the West Drive the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 2 when he got hit by two cars. But according to police, he was not in the crosswalk and did not check appropriately before crossing the street between Hinman College’s Hughes Hall and the dock entrance of Lecture Hall.

The bicyclist suffered a scratch on his forehead and a sore back, police said.