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College police officer returns home to recover from car crash
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Date: July 19, 2011 09:18AM
College police officer returns home to recover from car crash
Thursday, Jul. 14
by Laura Peters
http://www.loudountimes.com/index.php/news/article/car_crash_sends_college_police_sergeant_to_hospital123/
The Northern Virginia Community College police sergeant involved in a Route 7 car crash in Sterling on July 14 returned home over the weekend. The officer, who has not been named by authorities, is still recovering, Virginia State Police said.
Last Thursday, the police sergeant was responding to a fire alarm call at an off-campus building blocks away from the Loudoun campus when his car collided with an oncoming van around 2 p.m., according to NVCC Police Chief Daniel Dusseau.
The crash shut down westbound traffic on Route 7 for more than two hours.
According to Dusseau, the sergeant was leaving the college’s Loudoun campus on Campus Drive and turning left onto Route 7 heading eastbound.
The sergeant had his lights and siren on as he approached the light, witnesses and authorities said.
According to witnesses, the police car was approaching the light at the intersection of Route 7 and Campus Drive and stopped cautiously at the intersection. Two of the three westbound lanes on Route 7 started to slow down and stopped to allow the cruiser to pass, witnesses said.
The third lane, where the van was traveling, was blocked by the other cars in the two lanes to the van’s right - creating a blind spot in seeing the police cruiser, according to witnesses. The van continued through the intersection at Campus Drive, where the two cars collided.
Witnesses said that the impact of the van hitting the police cruiser was so hard that it “literally lifted the car up” and they thought it was going to flip over.
Witnesses also said it appeared that the police sergeant was not wearing a seat belt, and the impact pushed him from the driver’s seat to the front passenger’s seat.
After the cruiser was hit, witnesses said that people were getting out of their cars to stop the cruiser from rolling into the drainage ditch on the side of Route 7.
According to NVCC provost, Dr. Julie Leidig, authorities initially thought the sergeant would need to be airlifted out, but when they re-evaluated the scene, he was taken via ambulance to Inova Fairfax Hospital.
The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office was on scene, with Virginia State Police arriving about 3 p.m.
The case is now being handled by the Commonwealth’s Attorney and they will decided whether charges will be filed, according to state police.
Thursday afternoon a van crashed into a Northern Virginia Community College police cruiser on Route 7 leaving a police sergeant with serious injuries. The crash shut down westbound traffic on Route 7 for most of the afternoon. Times-Mirror Staff Photo/Laura Peters
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Thursday, Jul. 14
by Laura Peters
http://www.loudountimes.com/index.php/news/article/car_crash_sends_college_police_sergeant_to_hospital123/
The Northern Virginia Community College police sergeant involved in a Route 7 car crash in Sterling on July 14 returned home over the weekend. The officer, who has not been named by authorities, is still recovering, Virginia State Police said.
Last Thursday, the police sergeant was responding to a fire alarm call at an off-campus building blocks away from the Loudoun campus when his car collided with an oncoming van around 2 p.m., according to NVCC Police Chief Daniel Dusseau.
The crash shut down westbound traffic on Route 7 for more than two hours.
According to Dusseau, the sergeant was leaving the college’s Loudoun campus on Campus Drive and turning left onto Route 7 heading eastbound.
The sergeant had his lights and siren on as he approached the light, witnesses and authorities said.
According to witnesses, the police car was approaching the light at the intersection of Route 7 and Campus Drive and stopped cautiously at the intersection. Two of the three westbound lanes on Route 7 started to slow down and stopped to allow the cruiser to pass, witnesses said.
The third lane, where the van was traveling, was blocked by the other cars in the two lanes to the van’s right - creating a blind spot in seeing the police cruiser, according to witnesses. The van continued through the intersection at Campus Drive, where the two cars collided.
Witnesses said that the impact of the van hitting the police cruiser was so hard that it “literally lifted the car up” and they thought it was going to flip over.
Witnesses also said it appeared that the police sergeant was not wearing a seat belt, and the impact pushed him from the driver’s seat to the front passenger’s seat.
After the cruiser was hit, witnesses said that people were getting out of their cars to stop the cruiser from rolling into the drainage ditch on the side of Route 7.
According to NVCC provost, Dr. Julie Leidig, authorities initially thought the sergeant would need to be airlifted out, but when they re-evaluated the scene, he was taken via ambulance to Inova Fairfax Hospital.
The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office was on scene, with Virginia State Police arriving about 3 p.m.
The case is now being handled by the Commonwealth’s Attorney and they will decided whether charges will be filed, according to state police.
Thursday afternoon a van crashed into a Northern Virginia Community College police cruiser on Route 7 leaving a police sergeant with serious injuries. The crash shut down westbound traffic on Route 7 for most of the afternoon. Times-Mirror Staff Photo/Laura Peters
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Re: College police officer returns home to recover from car crash
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Date: July 21, 2011 08:33PM
I'm glad that he is ok. He is one of the nice officers who is professional and truly dedicated to his job.