Officers Injured in Crash
- Two police officers were injured in a traffic crash in the Gresham neighborhood Saturday evening, authorities said.
A squad car crashed about 8:40 p.m. in the 7500 block of South Western Avenue, Chicago Police Department News Affairs [...] said.
Two officers were hurt, but their injuries did not appear to life-threatening, [News Affairs said], citing preliminary information.
Debris remained strewn across Western long after the crash, as police blocked traffic and guarded the scene.
A dark-colored SUV with extensive front and rear damaged remained on the east curb of Western, completely off the road. At least one airbag had deployed inside the vehicle.
Wishing a speedy recovery to the injured.
Labels: officer injured
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
24 Comments:
Drive carefully. We lose too many good people that way.
Two cops hurt and the guy is drunk with a suspended DL. Result? He was charged with misdemeanor DUI. Welcome to cook county
Speedy recovery and a slow return back to work!
Prayers and wishes for full recovery to you officers also.
St. Michael protect them and all our brothers and sisters.
I hope everybody's okay. When the media reports injuries as 'non life-threatening', people assume that means everything is fine. It doesn't.
Wishing you a FULL recovery!!!
Sgt and 2 POs in 014 rescued a woman from a burning car last night. Nice work midnights!
My thoughts and prayers go out to them. Get well soon my brothers and enjoy your year IOD furlo!
does anyone know the story on how this crash happened? i saw crash but couldn't put it together. hope the officers are ok and wish them a full recovery.
i think the civilian driver was a dui.
get well soon TD,FH, just wish the po's on scene knew how to make a dui arrest.
crazy scene,dude was drunk,007 dist. po was going to do the arrest,doesnt 008 have anybody who does dui's?
get well boys,you never want to see a po get hurt,esp. the working police,get better td fh
They teach how to make dui arrests in the academy right?
Drunk DP, Susp DL, DUI, No Insurance---he'll get probation
The fang and the d get well soon
Fang down!!! Get well soon Fred and tommy. Glad it wasn't worse than it looked
Yes it is taught in the academy....but I would rather have someone that is good at dui's to do the paper...just like a police shooting...u want just any det to handle it or one that is particularly good at it?????
Check out who the arresting officers were on the arrest report and everybody from 008 will understand why the absolute bare minimum was done and this guy was only charged with misdemeanors. What a disgrace.
Isnt dui plus being suspended agg dui? Riciculous
Anonymous said...
Drunk DP, Susp DL, DUI, No Insurance---he'll get probation
2/17/2013 07:51:00 PM
If his DL was suspened for a prior DUI, either the new DUI or DWLS would be a felony right ???
NOT to be considered as criticism, just information...
On average we lose a police officer in 'line-of-duty' deaths every 53 hours in our nation.
For well over two decades the Number 1 cause of death is 'traffic related.'
Firearms normally follow behind traffic related deaths which are all lumped together, i.e. vehicle crashes, stuck by vehicle while on foot, motorcycle, train etc.
While 2012 had more firearm deaths, traffic related cause was just two behind and thus far in 2013, traffic related deaths follow behind firearms by just one fatality.
My point is just to remind our brothers and sisters that you are just as likely, or perhaps even more at risk to be injured/killed in a vehicle/traffic incident as you would be encountering an armed subject during your tour.
Please use caution in driving and everyday interaction in this arena as well.
I will continue to pray for the overall safety of my fellow first responders that each and every one of you make it home safe everyday.
Ol' Vet (r)
0424. Don't be a pussy. Why don't you speak to the officers directly
If the drunk driver was an off duty p.o. It would have been a Felony.
They were on patrol heading south bound when a 2013 Jag attempting to reach the speed of sound tagged the squad car in the rear sending it across the intersection and into a pole. Get well soon guys.
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