NICOLE CHIN | layout & design editor
WHITNEY CURTIS | news editor
Sophomore graphic design major Julie Farris is in critical condition after a bike accident involving a trolley Tuesday, Feb. 19 around 11:15 a.m. Farris was riding her bike from West to East Campus when she collided with the university’s red trolley that was traveling in the opposite direction. Both parties were on Foothill Boulevard in the 800 block, near the first driveway of West Campus.
According to Corporal Dean Brewer of the Azusa Police Department, the accident was determined to be a “head on collision.”
Paramedics, a fire truck and engine, and police cars arrived on the scene shortly after. Farris was airlifted to Los Angeles County—USC Medical Center for treatment and underwent emergency neurosurgery.
As of Wednesday, she remained in critical condition for serious head trauma in the Intensive Care Unit.
Senior communication studies major Rachel Good was seated by the window in the middle of the trolley, two or three seats from the front, and witnessed the incident.
Good recalled that Farris turned too far out when trying to avoid the parked cars. The rainy weather seemed to cause Farris to lose control and she collided into the front right bumper of the trolley.
Azusa P.D. questioned Good to determine if there was any fault for the incident, and according to Good the collision was not the driver’s fault. No charges were pressed against the driver.
“There was nothing he could have done,” Good said.
Ferris’s roomate Jaclynn Anderson was riding her bike with Ferris when the accident occured and agrees it was no one’s fault.
“It’s going to be an extremely long process of recovery,” sophomore marketing major Jaclynn Anderson said. “We are just praying that she will wake up and when she does she is still the same person.”
Anderson said prayer and sensitivity are extremely appriciated. 
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