{"id":726603,"date":"2026-04-14T05:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/726603\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T05:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:24:13","slug":"out-of-control-driver-slams-into-phoenix-police-suv-sending-it-into-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/726603\/","title":{"rendered":"Out-of-control driver slams into Phoenix Police SUV sending it into business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 A Phoenix police officer was hospitalized with serious injuries after a car collided with a patrol vehicle Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash happened just before 6:30 p.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/9V26pqD9o37jM5Lh9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/9V26pqD9o37jM5Lh9\">near 7th Avenue and Indian School Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers were in the area when a car traveling in the opposite direction collided with them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Phoenix Fire personnel took one officer to the hospital with serious, but not life-threatening injuries. A second officer was transported out of an abundance of caution. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The other driver involved was not hospitalized. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said the driver of the car lost control and swerved left of the center lane, hitting the patrol car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Impairment is not believed to be a factor in the crash, but police say speed may have been. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver was detained, and potential charges will be determined when the investigation is complete. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 A Phoenix police officer was hospitalized with serious injuries after a car collided with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":726604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,300876,1589,7183,300875,300877,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-726603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-azfamily","12":"tag-crash-involving-phoenix-pd","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix-news","15":"tag-phoenix-pd-crash","16":"tag-police-officer-seriously-hurt-in-crash","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726603","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=726603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}