NEW YORK (PIX11) – A child and officer were injured in a car crash involving an NYPD squad car in Harlem Thursday evening, authorities said.
The car accident happened around 6:30 p.m. near W. 146 Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard. Officials said the NYPD struck another vehicle. A child was in the other car the squad car hit.
The officer and the child were both taken to area hospitals to be treated for minor injuries, police said.
Details on how the car crash happened were not made immediately available.
This is a developing story.
Matthew Euzarraga is a multimedia journalist from El Paso, Texas. He has covered local news and LGBTQIA topics in the New York City Metro area since 2021. He joined the PIX11 Digital team in 2023. You can see more of his work here.
