A man was arrested for DUI after a crash on the Mathews Bridge just before 2:30 a.m. Thursday.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said an officer was helping a man assisting a driver with a flat tire when another man driving a Ford Ranger hit the back of the officer’s patrol car.
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They said the man who hit the back of the patrol car, 30-year-old Aleksandr Bratulin, was unresponsive at first and had to take a sobriety test later, the arrest report said. He was later arrested.
A passenger in the Ford Ranger fell out of the car when Bratulin hit the back of the patrol car and was taken to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, the report said.
The driver with the flat tire was also taken to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The officer “received a small abrasion,” the report said.
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