The Brief
- Three separate collisions involved Arizona law enforcement vehicles within an eight-hour span late Friday into early Saturday morning.
- A Phoenix police officer was hospitalized after a suspected DUI driver smashed through a secure fence into a city fueling yard, slamming into his parked SUV.
- An MCSO transport van carrying inmates was broadsided by a red-light runner in Phoenix, while a suspected drunk driver totaled a parked Tribal Security vehicle on the San Carlos Reservation.
PHOENIX – A Phoenix police officer was ejected from his patrol vehicle when a suspected DUI driver crashed through a secure fence at a city gas station Friday night — one of three separate collisions involving law enforcement vehicles across Central Arizona in just eight hours.
What we know:
A red-light runner broadsided an inmate transport van, a driver barreled off an elevated parking lot into a gated police fueling yard, and an alleged DUI driver totaled a parked tribal security car, leaving an officer, a detention deputy and three inmates hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.…