HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Holland police officials have released details on the officer-involved in the crash that ended with a rolled-over Holland police vehicle Tuesday.
The officer was “responding with lights and sirens to a report of an armed robbery,” HDPS Capt. Keith Mulder told WHTC in an email.
The police cruiser was westbound on Seventh Street. The other vehicle, a sedan, had been southbound on Pine Avenue.Witnesses told police they heard the sirens and saw the lights as well as the crash that ensued.
The car hit the cruiswer on the passenger side, in front of the rear wheel, Mulder said, “causing it to slide sideways and roll onto its top.”
The officer involved was taken to Holland Hospital, where he was treated and released; the other drive went by private party to the hospital. Mulder said all injuires were considered minor.
The Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the crash, Mulder said. He later told WHTC that the report of an armed robbery turned out to be something else entirely.
