A University of Georgia student was hospitalized Monday after his scooter was struck by a car in west Athens.
Raphael Arbelaez apparently didn’t see the oncoming car.
Athens-Clarke County police said his vision may have been blocked by a city transit bus that had stopped to discharge passengers.
The collision ocurred at Church and West Broad streets at about 4:30 p.m.
Arbelaez was driving his scooter north on Church Street and was attempting to cross West Broad Street, police said.