An officer with the Metropolitan Police Department suffered injuries during a traffic stop Thursday afternoon in the western Las Vegas Valley.
The crash occurred just before 12:10 p.m. near West Tropicana Avenue and South Torrey Pines Drive, Metro said in a release. Officers were conducting a vehicle stop on a wanted person when another vehicle hit the unmarked police vehicles and the car they had stopped.
One officer was taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver remained at the scene, and impairment is not suspected at this time, police said.
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