A bicyclist was hit by a drunk driver Sunday morning, and is now said to be in critical condition, according to a press release by the University Police Department.

The incident occurred at 2:49 a.m . Sunday, and police arrived soon after.

Steven Kendal Otto, senior in chemistry, was biking around campus when he was struck by Ross Everett Chapman, junior in engineering, in a motor vehicle at the intersection of Dan Allen Drive and Yarbrough Drive.

“As they both entered the intersection of Dan Allen Drive and Yarbrough Drive, Chapman turned left onto the service road into Dan Allen Deck, striking Otto,” Lieutenant David Kelly said in the press release.

Otto was labeled as being in “critical condition” at the hospital Sunday morning, most likely from the force of the head-on impact.

“The driver of the vehicle, Ross Everett Chapman was traveling northbound on Dan Allen Drive and the bicyclist Steven Kendal Otto was traveling southbound on Dan Allen Drive,” Kelly said in the release, “Otto was struck with enough impact to shatter and break the windshield of Chapman’s vehicle.”

Chapman was arrested for suspicion of Driving While Impaired and taken to Wake County Public Safety Center where he was found to have a blood alcohol concentration of approximately .12, well over the legal limit of .08.

It is suspected that substances other than alcohol could have been a factor in his driving. The release did not mention whether Chapman knew Otto.

According to the campus police, a search warrant has been acquired to test Chapman’s blood for other “impairing substances” because of the degree of Otto’s injuries.

“The results of this test will not be known for some time, until they can be analyzed by the SBI ,” Kelly said in the release.

Otto remains in Wake Raleigh Hospital, where he was transported shortly after the accident.