Joseph Pawasarat, a UW-Madison junior and mechanical engineering major, is left with life-threatening injuries after getting hit by a motor vehicle as a pedestrian in a hit-and-run accident Sunday morning on the corner of Broom Street and Johnson Street, according to a press release.
The accident occurred around 2:30 a.m., on the first weekend Johnson Street was open since construction began last spring.
Suspect Timothy M. Madison, a 24 year-old Madison resident, was driving the vehicle. He later called police and turned himself in.
Madison was arrested under failure to render aid and is currently awaiting charges.
Pawasarat was immediately rushed to UW Hospital, where he is listed in serious condition.
Three American soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division were killed Sunday in Iraq, including two with slashed throats, after an attack in the northern city of Mosul, according to The New York Times.
The soldiers' car crashed after they were attacked with rocks and gunfire, and military officials are unsure if their deaths were caused by the crash, the gunfire or the knife wounds.
Witnesses told news services they saw crowds pummeling the soldiers' bodies and looting the car.
Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the U.S. military's deputy director for operations in Iraq, said during a briefing there was an investigation as to why the soldiers were not in a convoy, a \standard operating procedure.""
Attacks on American soldiers in Mosul have risen in recent weeks.
A 48 year-old man from Florida who was covering the University of Wisconsin-University of Iowa football game Saturday at Camp Randall for ABC Sports Media fell eight feet from a wooden platform on top of the F-G entry ramp onto a cement floor when installing a TV camera. The accident occurred around 9 p.m. Friday evening.
A university staff member found the man lying on the ramp, unconscious and called 911.
UW Police and Madison Fire Rescue responded to the accident immediately, rushing him by ambulance to the University of Wisconsin Hospital. He sustained a head injury.
The F-G entry ramp leads from the seating area into the concourse.
