An Oak Ridge police officer driving a police car and two occupants of a second car were taken to the hospital after a Sunday afternoon crash at South Illinois and Rutgers avenues.
An Oak Ridge police officer driving a police car and two occupants of a second car were taken to the hospital after a Sunday afternoon crash at South Illinois and Rutgers avenues.
The two-car crash occurred at about 2:12 p.m. Sunday, the Oak Ridge Police Department said in a statement.
The officer, the only occupant of the police vehicle, was taken by ambulance to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, ORPD Capt. Charles R. Smith said in the statement.
There were two occupants of the second vehicle, and both were taken to Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. The Tennessee Highway Patrol is investigating the collision.
More information will be added as it becomes available.
Oak Ridge police officers, firefighters, and EMS workers remove an injured police officer from a police car, not pictured behind fire truck at right, after a two-vehicle collision on Sunday afternoon at the intersection of South Illinois and Rutgers avenues.
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