Police sergeant, 5-year-old girl among 3 injured after driver flees traffic stop

Police mentioned the sergeant was conducting a visitors cease close to State Road and Grand Avenue simply after 8 p.m. within the Close to North neighborhood. When the officer requested the motive force of a pink Honda to get out of the car, police mentioned they refused, put the car in gear and drove off, hanging the sergeant and swerving right into a crowd of individuals crossing the road.

“He was asking for his paperwork after which the man within the automobile, similar to, took off. He hit a girl! She flew within the air, like loopy, and the officer was holding on to the door. The officer obtained dragged, and he hit one other officer and, like, sped that means. It occurred in, like, a matter of ten seconds, all that occurred,” mentioned Joshua Schaffer, who witnessed the incident.

A lady and a 5-year-old lady have been injured, police mentioned.

The police sergeant was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening accidents. The girl and lady have been additionally transported to hospitals in good situation, officers mentioned.

Police mentioned the motive force fled the scene and nobody is in custody.