A two-car accident between Eastern students on Lincoln Avenue Wednesday night required the “jaws of life” to remove one of the drivers so he could be treated at Sarah Bush Health Center in Mattoon.

Eastern student John McMillen, of 0153 Lamda Chi Alpha campus house, a passenger in the hospitalized student’s car, said the driver, student Steve Nelson of 1202 Lincoln Ave., was heading south on 10th Street across Lincoln Avenue in a mid-80s gray Ford Mustang LX when he collided with another vehicle heading east on Lincoln Avenue.

The Mustang was hit in the front by a mid-90s white Ford Explorer, driven by student Heath Wechter of 1012 Second St., and spun so that it landed with its rear end on the southeast corner of the 10th Street and Lincoln Avenue intersection, McMillen said.

The incident occurred around 6:30 p.m.

Members of the Charleston Fire Department responded to the scene and began to remove the driver’s side door with “the jaws of life” to get to Nelson, who was sprawled from the drivers seat into the Mustang’s back seat.

Nelson was carefully slid from the inside of the car and strapped to a stretcher and his head was secured in a brace.

He was removed from the scene in a Charleston Fire and Rescue ambulance and taken to Sarah Bush.

By 9 p.m. Nelson had been treated and released, the hospital reported. No one else at the scene was treated.

The Charleston Police Department responded to the scene but refused to comment on the incident at the time of the accident and whether someone was cited for the accident, and the fire department also refused further comment.

Wechter, a senior economics major, appeared to be a Boxa delivery employee as he had Boxa delivery items in his car that were picked up by another Boxa employee. Both of the individuals were wearing Boxa attire.

Michael Bocksa, manager of Boxa, 407C Lincoln Ave., declined to comment on the accident and whether the driver was an employee of his. Wechter also declined to comment.