By Elise Craig

Hoya Staff Writer

Emergency personnel inspect the car that struck Reid Swanson (MSB ’06) on Saturday afternoon.

A Georgetown University Hospital employee ran over a drunk Georgetown student Saturday near the intersection of 35th and O Streets as the student and a friend were crossing the street.

Reid Swanson (MSB ’06) was backed over by a car driven by University Hospital radiologist Filip Banovac just after 4 p.m., according to a Metropolitan Police Department report. Banovac was driving eastbound on O Street when he came upon cones blocking the intersection of 35th and O Streets, which forced him to stop and back up, the report said.

The report said that Banovac began backing up in front of the cones “not realizing that there was someone lying in his path on the ground.”

Banovac said that people screamed for him to stop after he began to back up, and he noticed Swanson under the vehicle shortly afterwards.

Banovac said that he did not see anyone behind him when he started to back up and added that Swanson must already have been on the ground when he put his car into reverse.

“He was down there already,” Banovac said.

Swanson said that he and a friend were carrying a keg across the street when he slipped and fell. He agreed that he was already on the ground when Banovac ran over him but contended that the driver should have been more careful when backing up.