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N.C. State student critically injured in collision

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RALEIGH -- An N.C. State student was critically injured early Sunday when a car driven by another student hit his bicycle and threw him onto the car's windshield, according to campus police.

Steven Kendal Otto was taken to WakeMed and was listed in serious condition Sunday afternoon.

Police said they charged Ross Everett Chapman, the car's driver, with driving while impaired after a test showed he had a blood alcohol level of 0.12. The limit for driving in North Carolina is 0.08.

Otto and Chapman were going in opposite directions on Dan Allen Drive at Yarbrough Drive about 2:50 a.m. when Chapman turned left onto a service road that leads to the Dan Allen Parking Deck, campus officers reported. Otto shattered the car's windshield when his body hit it, they said.

Police said they obtained a search warrant to draw blood from Chapman to test for alcohol and any other impairing substances. They are awaiting analysis by the State Bureau of Investigation.

The university's directory lists Otto as a senior chemistry major from Apex and Chapman as a junior civil engineering major from Raleigh. Otto was a dean's list student last semester.

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