Local News in Brief : Santa Ana : Officer Stable After Police Car Is Struck
A police officer whose patrol car was hit broadside in an intersection as he was responding to a call was listed in stable condition Sunday, authorities said.
Officer John Tucker, 27, was responding to a report of a man with a gun Saturday at about 2 p.m. when, with lights flashing and siren sounding, his car was broadsided at Garfield and 4th streets by a small pickup truck, police said Sunday.
The driver of the truck, who was uninjured, apparently did not see Tucker and has not been cited, a police spokesman said.
Tucker was taken to Western Medical Center in Santa Ana, where he was being treated for broken ribs, police said.
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