A 25-year-old woman became the latest casualty in a collision course with the law yesterday, after being hit by a speeding Brookline police cruiser. According to Boston.com, the incident occurred in Coolidge Corner around 5:30 p.m., while the officer was responding lights blazing to a medical emergency.
Traversing southbound on Harvard Street, the police officer, with lights flashing, managed to strike the woman as he took a left onto Babcock Street, informed Paul Campbell, a deputy superintendent with the Brookline Police Department. The injured pedestrian was then transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with injuries "that do not appear to be life threatening," as per Brookline.news.
Brookline police declined to release the identity of the woman but reported the crash remains under rigorous investigation. The department has assigned a traffic investigator to peel back the layers of this recent mishap.
Ironically, this crash marks the second accident in a fortnight involving Brookline's finest, following an earlier collision on Feb. 5, which sent both an officer and another driver hospital-bound, as reported the Boston Globe. The community's sense of safety, pierced once more by the blare of sirens, now hangs in the balance as Brookline's guardians are called to account for these recent pedestrian endangerments.
