On Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026, two different car accidents occurred due to winter weather and snow-coated roads near the RIT campus.
Around 9:15 p.m., a Lexus with three RIT students slid off the snow-coated road on the corner of John Street and Trail Crossing Road. All students were unharmed. The car became stuck in the snow, and the students called a tow truck.
“I took the turn a little fast, and I couldn’t brake at all, and I got into the ditch,” stated second year Electrical and Electronics Engineering student Pawel Pacholski, the car’s driver.
Several students stopped to ask if the group was okay, and Pawel assured them that they were and that they had help coming.
Later, at around 10 p.m., second year Film and Animation student Anna Widger was driving her Subaru behind a car holding two of her friends on the way back from a concert and nearly hit them when her brakes were not able to slow her down quickly enough at the corner of Perkins Road and Park Point Drive. While swerving around them, she ran into the snowbank on the side of the road.
“I got stuck and was trying to get out,” she stated, “but I couldn’t.”
Unharmed, she was helped out of the snow by a passerby, but discovered that her tire had received multiple holes and had to call friends to pick her up.
