Bad Crash

This is going to short the Watch for a few weeks:

• Police fired shots at train burglary suspects who plowed into police officers and their cars early Wednesday in Englewood, leaving two suspects and five officers hospitalized during an incident that also involved a pursuit, according to officials.

  At least one person was still being sought following the incident that unfolded at 5:05 a.m. as officers were conducting a burglary mission. They were alerted to multiple people taking items from rail cars in the area in the 5800 block of South Princeton Avenue, Chicago police said.

  As officers approached, people who matched the description of the thieves “accelerated rapidly” and in an SUV and hit an officer with the vehicle, police said. Officers then fired their weapons in the direction of the SUV, which then slammed into a marked squad car, officials said. The SUV driver was taken into custody and taken to an area hospital for injuries related to the crash, officials said.

And then there was another crash two miles away that injured the fourth and fifth officers.

Best wishes for a rapid recovery to all involved.