{"id":132759,"date":"2025-08-09T21:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132759\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T21:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:57:12","slug":"dallas-police-officer-taken-to-hospital-after-squad-car-hit-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132759\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas police officer taken to hospital after squad car hit, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/dallas-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/dallas-police\/\">Dallas police<\/a> officer was transported to a hospital Friday night after his squad car was hit by another vehicle, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">About 10 p.m. Friday, officers responded to the 1000 block of Botham Jean Boulevard in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/cedars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/cedars\/\">Cedars<\/a> neighborhood for an assist officer with ambulance call, according to a police spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officers determined that an unknown driver had crashed into the officer\u2019s patrol car and then fled the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dallas Fire-Rescue extracted the officer from his squad car and took him to a local hospital. He was evaluated and later released.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-cta-social-module__zWZy- mb-4\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Information about a suspect, the second vehicle or the name of the officer were immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dallas police officer was transported to a hospital Friday night after his squad car was hit by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,80428,4219,1596,14842,5292,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-132759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cedars","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-police","13":"tag-public-safety","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115001048678177799","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}