A silver Honda Civic collided with a Red Buick LeSabre by the intersection of Kanan and Doubletree roads Tuesday morning. The driver of the LeSabre and the passenger of the Civic were both taken by ambulance to Los Robles Hospital. No Oak Park students or faculty were injured.

The accident occurred at 8:22 a.m. as students filed into their second period classrooms. Assistant Principal Jason Meskis heard the crash from the Great Lawn and was the first on the scene.

“The driver of the Civic had exited the vehicle, and was on the way to the side of the road. The passenger of the [Civic] was still in the car, but he didn’t have a seatbelt on, and he was hurt fairly badly. His head had hit the windshield,” Meskis said.

Shortly thereafter, Principal Kevin Buchanan and Assistant Principal Bryan Martin arrived.

“The hood of the Civic was all bent up and there was smoke and the smell of burning coming out of it, so I hit that with a fire extinguisher while Mr. Meskis took the [passenger] to the sidewalk,” Buchanan said. “If we had left it long enough, I think it would have burst into flames.”

The passenger of the Civic was the most seriously injured.

“He was bleeding from his mouth. Occasionally he would come in and out of consciousness, complaining that his jaw was hurting,” Buchanan said.

Brenda Pasqua, an athletic trainer at OPHS and a certified EMT, also responded to the scene. She focused her attention on the Civic’s passenger.

“The young man was lying on the sidewalk partially conscious, partially unconscious,” Pasqua said. “I used my hands to hold his head and neck stable so they wouldn’t move.”

The Civic rear-ended the LeSabre and rotated it so that it blocked two lanes of traffic.

“The [LeSabre’s] airbag had deployed, and it looked like the seat had broken backward from the impact,” Meskis said.

He said that the driver was shaken, complaining of pain in his hip and neck, but appeared not to have sustained serious injuries.

The fire department and paramedics arrived at 8:28 a.m. and treated the LeSabre’s driver and the Civic’s passenger.

School security cameras captured the accident. Based on their footage, the Civic appears to have collided with the LeSabre at around 35 mph. The Civic showed no signs of stopping before the collision.

“The driver never hit the brakes,” Buchanan said.

While the vehicles blocked lanes on Kanan, Martin and MCMS Principal Brad Benioff directed traffic. Tow trucks came and hauled away the twisted wreckage.