Crime & Safety

No Injuries Reported After Speeding Driver Crashes Into 2 Dallas Police Cars

An officer who was sitting in the first squad car was transported to a nearby hospital for precautionary purposes, police said.

(James Potter/Patch)

September 12, 2021

No injuries were reported after a speeding driver crashed into two Dallas police cares early Saturday morning.

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Police said at approximately 2:42 a.m., two fully marked DPD cars with their emergency lights on were protecting an accident scene on E. Northwest Highway when a 56-year-old man driving a 2004 Buick LeSabre “failed to control his speed and impacted into the back rear of the squad car,” pushing it into a second.

An officer who was sitting in the first squad car was transported to a nearby hospital for precautionary purposes, police said.

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