Four-car collision causes commotion
September 6, 2018
Palo Alto High School’s Embarcadero parking lot was rife with commotion after school Wednesday after a woman crashed into a car parked on El Camino, triggering a bumper-to-bumper collision with two additional cars. First responders said they took the woman to the hospital as a precautionary measure. Two of the parked cars belonged to Paly staff, and the third to a Paly student.



![Shounak Dharap, president of the school board of Palo Alto Unified School District, announced Friday morning that Superintendent Don Austin separated from his superintendent position at PAUSD. Corbin Dodd, an Ethnic Studies and AP Seminar teacher at Palo Alto High School, said that Austin's separation from the district surprised him and his colleagues. "Negotiations are happening right now, so there's a lot of talk about the school board and the superintendent, but it [Austin's separation] wasn't on my radar, and I don't think it was on the radar of any of the teachers I've spoken to," Dodd said.](https://palyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IMG_7950-300x225.png)

