Highland Park Police are searching for a Good Samaritan who helped rescue a 21-year-old police officer after a severe crash with a street racer.
Watch Faraz Javed’s video report:
Highland Park police search for hero who rescued officer after severe crash
On April 5, just after midnight, Highland Park Police officer Javon Odom was driving his patrol car when a street racer fleeing other police units slammed into him. The suspect was driving the wrong way down Hamilton Avenue at 70 mph.
“I’d never seen him, but from other statements from officers who did see him, he was driving the wrong way to traffic, down Hamilton. So when I started to initiate my U-turn, he came out of nowhere and hit me,” Odom said.
Body camera video shows the moment of impact. The crash deployed the patrol car’s airbags, and Odom said he was in a state of shock before passing out…