Local News in Brief : Patrol Car Struck
A sheriff’s deputy “found a drunk driver the hard way” early Thursday when a teen-ager’s car smashed the rear of his patrol car at a stoplight in Pico Rivera, authorities said.
Deputy Eldon Crowder’s car was hit about 1:35 a.m. at Rosemead and Washington boulevards, Deputy Dan Cox said. Crowder was treated and released at Whittier Presbyterian Hospital for a severe headache and neck pain.
Deputies arrested a 16-year-old Rosemead youth on suspicion of drunk driving, Cox said. The youth’s companion, a 17-year-old Pico Rivera youth, was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public, he said.
Neither youth’s name was released because of their ages.
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