2 Unmarked Cop Cars Collided Friday Enroute To Stolen Car Sighting: PD

NEW HAVEN, CT — Friday night, two unmarked cop cars collided as each was headed to a sighting of a stolen car, police said. Neither were chasing the purported stolen car, New Haven police Capt. Rose Dell said. There were no serious injures reported, per police.

It was around 8 p.m., when an officer spotted a stolen car on Whalley Avenue and radioed it in. The two unmarked were nearby, Dell said, and then headed towards Whalley. They crashed into each other at the intersection of Edgewood Avenue and Garden Street, Dell said.

She explained:

"One of the vehicles, a Dodge Charger, was traveling eastbound on Edgewood Avenue. A Crown Victoria turned east onto Edgewood from Day Street, ahead of the Dodge Charger. The Crown Victoria then began to execute a left turn onto Garden Street. The vehicles crashed and the Dodge Charger, in an attempted avoidance maneuver, struck a utility pole at the corner of the intersection. Neither vehicle was in pursuit at the time of crash, and no civilian vehicles were involved."

There were two cops in each car and the ones in the Charger were taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital, treated for minor injuries and discharged, Dell said.