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Last updated on Monday, December 8, 2014
(BROWNSBURG) - Two Brownsburg Police officers escaped injury after their police cars were struck after they went to assist another officer around 8:00 Saturday morning.
It all started just after 7:30 when a Brownsburg officer was dispatched to the 68 mile marker of I 74 westbound, just east of Ronald Reagan Parkway, for a semi tractor off the roadway and in the grass. The first officer arrived parking on the shoulder near a semi that had gone off the interstate. The officer suspected a possible DUI incident and two other officers were dispatched to assist.
Two additional Brownsburg police officers arrived and parked on the shoulder of the interstate down the road from the other officers car and the semi. Shortly after they arrived another semi truck traveling westbound pulled off onto the shoulder between the two police cars and the other police vehicle that was initially dispatched. The officers in two vehicles had departed their vehicles and were by the semi that first left the roadway.
Another car traveling westbound side swiped the two Brownsburg Police cars that were parked on the shoulder before striking the back of the semi tractor trailer that was parked on the shoulder of the roadway. The unidentified driver was trapped in his car and was transported to a local hospital with lower legs injuries.
The two Brownsburg police officers whose cars were side swiped were not injured.
All westbound lanes of I-74 were re-opened around 10:30 a.m.
The driver of the semi officers initially responded to was arrested for operating while intoxicated.
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