A California driver’s dashboard camera captured the moment a Los Angeles County sheriff’s patrol car collided with another vehicle at a busy intersection on Wednesday, sending the patrol car flying into the air.
The accident happened just before 12:30 p.m. at the intersection of Newhall Ranch Road and Bouquet Canyon Road in Santa Clarita.
The video shows a gold Lexus crashing into the side of a police car as the officer is driving through an intersection, causing the car to spin, fly through the air and come to a stop on its front after crashing into a silver SUV waiting at a red light.
“[It] “It happened so quickly,” said Allen Lapisula, who captured the accident on his dashcam. FOX11 Los Angeles. “It’s just like what you see in the movies.”
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A gold Lexus crashed into the side of a police car at a busy intersection in Santa Clarita, California, on Wednesday. (@langoo Allen Lapisla)
Another witness, Audrey Carias, described the moment of the accident: To KTLA.
“A police car was coming towards me and another car sped up and hit it,” Carias said.[The patrol car] The car flipped over and hit the two cars in front of me. Luckily I wasn’t hit.”
Dashcam footage showed the patrol car spinning in the air and flipping over on its side. (@langoo Allen Lapisla)
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According to reports, several passersby rushed to the scene to try to help the deputy after the accident, and the sheriff’s office said he suffered minor injuries and has since been released from the hospital.
“I think it says a lot that the Santa Clarita community loves their police department here,” LAPD Sergeant Shelley Clark told FOX11.
“It was a horrific sight. We’re all very surprised and very happy,” he said. [the deputy] “I basically walked away unscathed,” she added.
The deputy suffered minor injuries and has since been released from the hospital, authorities said. (@langoo Allen Lapisla)
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Santa Clarita Station said deputies were responding to a report of a theft. Signal reported. A newspaper based in the Santa Clarita Valley.
The driver of the SUV that was struck by the patrol car was also treated at a hospital and released, while the elderly driver of the gold Lexus was uninjured in the crash, FOX11 reported.
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The accident remains under investigation, so no charges have been filed.
