Suspected impaired driver crashes into parked security vehicle
CLEVELAND, Ohio April 26 2021
A Wellington police officer is in the hospital today after being hit while sitting in a parked car in Cleveland early Sunday morning.
According to Sgt. Ray Santiago with the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP), around 1:55 a.m. Sunday, an unnamed Wellington police officer was working security detail for a police-contracted security company on Interstate 90 Eastbound near Interstate 490.
While parked in a security vehicle inside the construction zone, the vehicle what struck by a suspected drunk driver from behind.
OSHP troopers responded to the scene to provide backup and the Wellington officer was sent to MetroHealth in Cleveland with non-life-threatening injuries.
Officials tell 3News that the driver was also taken to MetroHealth with non-life-threatening injuries and has been cited with OVI.
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