On Saturday night an alleged drunken driver rammed his pickup truck into a Confederate statue on the University of Mississippi campus, but police contend it was an accident.

“We had people at the scene last night, and obviously, with everything going on in the nation, we wanted to make it abundantly clear to everybody that there’s no indication that this was intentional,” University Police Chief Tim Potts told The Daily Mississippian on Sunday.

“Due to the statue, we’ve contacted the FBI, just to make them aware of (the situation) and to make sure we are not missing any charges that could or could not be filed,” he said. “We just want to make sure we take care of all angles n this and do our due diligence and go from there.”

Potts said the pickup slammed into the decorative base of the statue, but the actual base that supports it was not damaged. Ole Miss’ Facilities Management cleaned up debris that was knocked loose during the collision, including a contextualization plaque that was installed in front of the structure last spring, according to the news site.

“The statue on top and everything appears to be level and firm,” Potts said. “There’s no imminent threat of the statue falling.”

The statue – a 29-foot-tall Georgia granite structure topped with a Confederate soldier – overlooks the entrance of the school known as “the Circle,” where the driver of the truck apparently failed to negotiate a turn and rammed directly into the monument around 10 p.m. Saturday night, according to The Clarion-Ledger.

Both the driver and a passenger were taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital for evaluations, WREG reports.

Potts told the Mississippian the driver will be charged with drunken driving.

The crash drew a wide range of reactions online, where many folks wondered whether the collision was a new approach from social justice warriors who are calling for the removal of Confederate monuments across the nation.

“Intentional?” CrookedLetta posted to Twitter.

“Maybe someone decided to take out a Confederate monument all by themselves,” Krysti added.

The movement to remove Confederate monuments was born from a campaign to remove the Confederate flag in the wake of a racially motivated shooting that killed nine black members of Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015.

The effort to remove the Confederate flag from public life eventually snowballed into efforts to remove all symbols of the Confederacy, a movement that was further amplified following a deadly clash between white nationalists and anti-fascists in Charlottesville, Virginia last month.

The Ole Miss statue honors Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War and has greeted Ole Miss visitors since 1909, according to “A Brief Historical Contextualization of the Confederate Monument at the University of Mississippi.”