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Monday, 17 October 2011 16:10 |
SAWYER –– A Sawyer, Okla., police officer was medi-flighted to an Arkansas hospital after being involved in an automobile accident on Friday afternoon.
According to the officer’s reports, a 2008 KW dump truck, driven by Bobby Sullivan of Powderly, Texas, was traveling westbound on US 70 in the outside lane when Sawyer officer Darrell Armstrong passed Sullivan in the inside lane. After passing the dump truck, the police cruiser changed back to the outside lane. Reports state that Sullivan made a lane change to the inside when he observed the police cruiser braking in front of him, at which point the police unit’s emergency lights activated and Armstrong made a u-turn in front of the dump truck. The police cruiser was impacted by the dump truck in the center turn lane. According to police reports, the cruiser came to rest 109 feet from point of impact.
Thirty-nine year-old Armstrong was air lifted to Fort Smith, Ark., with a broken collar bone and pelvic fracture, reports state, while Sullivan was not injured.
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