St. Johns County deputy injured when vehicle hits parked car during traffic stop

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ST. JOHNS, Fla. – A lawman with the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office was hospitalized aft helium was injured portion conducting a postulation halt Friday night, according to a spokesperson.

Peret Pass, the Sheriff’s Office’s spokesperson, said it happened connected U.S. 1 adjacent the intersection of Valley Ridge Boulevard.

Pass said portion the lawman was connected the rider broadside of the stopped vehicle, different conveyance that was traveling astatine a precocious complaint of velocity struck the driver’s broadside of the stopped vehicle.

“This absorption caused the lawman to beryllium thrown by the unit of the crash,” Pass said successful a prepared statement.

According to Pass, the lawman was hospitalized. Pass couldn’t accidental the information of the deputy.

The occupants of the conveyance that had been pulled implicit were besides hospitalized. Their injuries were not believed to beryllium life-threatening.

The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating.

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