UAPD cruiser crashes en route to call
A university police officer driving to a non-emergency call last night collided with another car at the intersection of North Campbell Avenue and East Speedway Boulevard.
It was the second collision involving a university police car in two weeks. No one was seriously injured.
The officer was traveling northbound on Campbell shortly before 10 p.m. when a gray sedan turned left from westbound Speedway against a red light, said Sgt. Octavio Barcelo of the University of Arizona Police Department.
The officer was taken to University Medical Center to be checked, but there were no serious injuries, Barcelo said. The two people in the sedan were able to drive away in their vehicle after the incident, but the police car was not driveable after the crash, he said.
"There was damage to the front right side tire and damage to the passenger side (of the officer's car)," Barcelo said.
The identities of the people involved were not available last night.
The officer was responding to a suspicious activity call at UMC, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., when the collision occurred and was not using his lights or sirens, Barcelo said.
In an unrelated case, a university police car collided with a Volkswagen Jetta last weekend across from the Student Recreation Center, 1400 E. Sixth St.
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