Two officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) They had to be rushed to a hospital due to the serious injuries they suffered early Tuesday morning due to an accident while investigating a police chase on Freeway 57, in the Fullerton area.
The accident occurred at approximately 2:00 am when the two officers were in the northbound lanes of the highway looking for an object that had reportedly been thrown by a suspect during an earlier chase.
When officers were searching for evidence on Freeway 57, a driver crashed into the back of her patrol car.
It is suspected that the object It could be a firearm.
According to reports, the police officers were on the right shoulder of the road at the time the collision with the patrol vehicle occurred, a gray Infiniti Q50, which was driven by a woman in her 20s.
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It is suspected that the woman was driving under the influence of alcohol when the accident against the police occurred.
The driver was also sent to the hospital for her injuries.
By the time they were taken to UC Irvine Medical Center by paramedics, the two LAPD officers were conscious.
Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore went to the hospital to visit the injured officers.
Moore said officers suffered “significant” injurieswhile the female driver had a laceration on her head.
The two police officers are expected to can fully recover.
The LAPD chief mentioned that the woman had been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after the accident.
It was reported that suspect in initial police chase arrested after remaining entrenched, in Lynwood.
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The chase began shortly after 12:00 am in the area of the intersection of Maple Avenue and Washington Boulevardby a suspect driving a stolen car.
LAPD Newton Division Officers They began the chase that lasted approximately an hour and a half and crossed several highways, including Interstate 5, Freeway 60, Interstate 605 and Interstate 105, until reaching Freeway 57, in the Fullerton area.
“During the course of that pursuit, it was believed that the suspect inside the vehicle had thrown an object,” Moore said at a news conference Tuesday morning.
The suspect ended the chase when he stopped in the parking lot of a motel on Atlantic Boulevard in Lynwood. In that place, The subject surrendered and was arrested by authorities at approximately 2:00 am.
Police did not release the suspect’s name.
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The officers followed the path of the chase in an attempt to find the object he had thrownand while they were looking for evidence the collision occurred with the car driven by the 20-year-old woman.
“Two uniformed officers returned down the path of the pursuit, in an effort to locate… whatever was thrown from the vehicle,” the LAPD chief said.
“As they were driving north, reaching Yorba Linda (Boulevard), they were struck by another motorist,” Moore added.
The authorities They kept the lanes of the northbound Freeway 57 closedat the Yorba Linda Boulevard exit, while the respective investigations were carried out.
It is unknown if authorities found the object thrown by the suspect.
At approximately 5:30 am the northbound carpool lane was opened, but the other lanes remained closed.
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