Three injured in crash involving the state police

CLOVIS – A New Mexico State Police automobile pushed by an officer who thought an active-shooter drill Wednesday at Clovis Group Faculty was an actual occasion collided with one other automotive in Clovis and overturned, in keeping with a state police information launch.

The officer obtained minor accidents within the crash. A forty five-year-old lady and an 11-year-old woman driving within the different automobile, a Nissan Rogue, had been taken to Plains Regional Medical Middle with accidents not thought-about life-threatening, the information launch mentioned.

The state police information launch mentioned the Nissan was touring north on Norris Road when it struck the passenger facet of the state police automobile, which was touring east on Seventh Road. The discharge didn’t assign blame for the accident.

After the crash, the NMSP discovered the report of an active-shooter risk at CCC was solely a coaching train being carried out by the Clovis Police Division, the information launch said.

NMSP had not been made conscious of the coaching train, officers from each businesses mentioned.

In an electronic mail, Clovis Police Capt. Roman Romero wrote, “We didn’t inform the New Mexico State Police about our coaching, we by no means do. This coaching had been coordinated with CCC and the Clovis Hearth Division to check our mixed capabilities for an occasion I hope we by no means must undergo once more.”

Romero said that Clovis police posted a quick notice on Fb, “so our group realized that the a number of emergency automobiles at Clovis Group Faculty had been engaged in coaching. It has been a tough couple of months for our group, so letting them know that appeared essential.”

Romero mentioned that whereas Clovis police have no idea how state police discovered of the train, “it’s heartening to know they’ll reply to help our group for such an occasion.”

Romero, who was on the energetic shooter drill at CCC, said he initially thought the accident concerned a Clovis metropolis police automobile.

“Establishing radio communications with the New Mexico State Police has been a subject of dialog for a while,” he said, and state police, Clovis police and the Curry County Sheriff’s Division are working to mitigate the state of affairs.

The crash investigation remains to be energetic and ongoing and is being led by the New Mexico State Police, the information launch said.