A medical condition appears to be the cause of an accident Wednesday afternoon that left three poles -- called bollards -- splayed across the sidewalk next to the Oak Street Roundabout.
A 66-year-old woman turned herself in after learning from Attica Police that she had knocked down the bollards. She thought she had merely driven over a curb.
The Batavia woman's doctor recently changed her medication for diabetes and the woman told police she became drowsy.
The Batavian agreed not to release her name because it was a private medical condition and there were no citations issued.
The woman was coming off Pearl Street and drove up onto the curb just before she normally would have entered the roundabout.
The bollards are decorative posts meant to guide traffic along the roundabout. No word on the estimated cost of the damage.
Wikipedia defines bollard:
A bollard is a short vertical post. Originally it only meant a post used on a quay for mooring. The word now also describes a variety of structures to control or direct road traffic, such as posts arranged in a line to obstruct the passage of motor vehicles.
