Four NYPD officers were injured yesterday when two police cruisers collided in the Rockaways while both vehicles were rapidly trying to respond to a report of shots fired. The crash occurred approximately at 10:10 p.m. at the intersection of Rockaway Freeway and Beach 35th Street. The involved officers were all quickly transported to Jamaica Hospital and are reported to be in stable condition, as ABC 7 New York reported.
The New York Post provided images from the scene showing the two damaged NYPD vehicles, one with significant front-end damage and the other struck on the passenger side. This collision took place beneath an elevated subway line, at a busy intersection that serves as a nexus for three major roads.
While the officers were responding to a call for shots fired in the vicinity, there were no reported injuries from the gunfire and, as yet, no arrests have been made in relation to it. The collision did not seem to involve any other civilian vehicles, though details on the full circumstances surrounding the crash have not been completely unraveled.
No further information has been released regarding the nature of the call that led to the officers to hurriedly convene at the site of the shots fired.
