Long Beach: Officer-Involved Crash Injures Two People

12.20.2018 | 1:05 AM | LONG BEACH – A crash involving a marked police vehicle hospitalized two people, Thursday morning.

A Long Beach police officer radioed to report he was involved in a traffic collision near the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and East 23rd Street around 1:05 AM.

Additional police units along with firefighter paramedics responded to the scene and discovered an officer driving a Ford Explorer police vehicle had collided with a sedan.

The officer was injured but two people inside the other car required treatment and transport to an area hospital.

It was unclear whether the officer was responding to a call at the time of the crash or whether his lights and siren were activated.

Police were on scene investigating the circumstanced surrounding the crash.

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