Two police cars crashed into a median while chasing a robbery suspect, sending five people to the hospital yesterday morning.

Three Tucson Police officers, a father and his son were hospitalized and later released after a police car hit a newly installed pedestrian median at 8:25 a.m. at North Euclid Avenue and East Second Street.

The intersection was blocked off until the early afternoon.

Officer Danny Peralta drove into the center turn lane while chasing an armed robbery suspect southbound on Euclid. He did not know that the concrete median had been installed. When he hit the median, his airbag deployed and his patrol car slammed into oncoming traffic, TPD spokesman Sgt. Marco Borboa said. [Read article]