2 LAPD Officers Injured in Traffic Crash; Other Driver Taken into Custody
LOS ANGELES—Two Los Angeles Police Department officers were injured, one seriously, when a sedan being driven on the wrong side of the street collided with their patrol car, authorities said Dec. 5.
Southwest Area Gang Officers were in a marked patrol car with its lights and siren activated, responding to a request for a backup on a man with a gun call in Baldwin Hills about 5 p.m. Dec. 4, the department reported.
As the officers proceeded southbound onto Hillcrest Drive from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard they observed a dark Nissan sedan traveling northbound in the southbound lanes of traffic, police said….