2 NYPD Officers Reportedly Injured in 2 Brooklyn Hit-and-Runs in Same Night

In a bizarre crime pattern in Brooklyn on Sunday night, two different hit-and-run drivers injured two different NYPD officers patrolling different parts of the borough, according to police and on-scene reports.

In the first incident, a reckless hit-and-run driver sent a police officer to the hospital on Sunday night in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, according to the NYPD.

The officer and his partner, who were patrolling the 79th precinct on foot around 9:15 p.m., attempted to stop an apparently intoxicated man from entering a vehicle near Clifton Place and Nostrand Avenue, a police spokesman told Patch.

At that point, the suspect allegedly jumped into a different vehicle — a black Ford Fusion — and attempted to flee.

Once he was behind the wheel, the man allegedly hit a pole with his vehicle — then ”brushed his vehicle against one of the officers’ torsos,” the NYPD spokesman said.

Both officers attempted to pursue him, but he disappeared after making a left on Nostrand, according to police.

The cop who was hit was transported to Methodist Hospital in Park Slope, where he was listed in stable condition.

The night’s second hit-and-run reportedly occurred less than an hour later, and less than four miles away, at Kings Highway and Church Avenue in East Flatbush.

Twitter user @nycphotog, a freelance photojournalist, reported that another hit-and-run driver — also behind the wheel of a black sedan — downed an NYPD officer on Kings Highway around 10 p.m. Other Twitter accounts that follow NYPD scanners reported the same thing.

The NYPD press office was aware of the second incident, but could not provide details as of 12:45 a.m. on Monday morning.

Residents in both Bed-Stuy and East reported hearing helicopters overhead in the aftermath of the hit-and-runs. As of 11 p.m., police said they still had not caught the driver in the Bed-Stuy incident. “The investigation is ongoing,” the NYPD spokesman said.