Police are searching for an ATV driver who hit a police officer yesterday in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. The cop suffered numerous injuries, including broken vertebrae.
According to the NYPD, around 3:37 p.m., two on-duty police officers (in the anti-gang unit) in an unmarked police car were on South Conduit Avenue at Pitkin Avenue when they spotted an individual "operating a yellow four-wheel Yamaha all-terrain vehicle in a reckless manner, including weaving in and out of traffic and riding on the sidewalk." The officers say they turned on their lights and sirens and stopped the ATV.
However, when the cops approached the ATV, the ATV driver sped away and hit one of the them—and ended up dragging the cop, who was clinging to the front handlebar area. After 190 feet, the police officer was knocked to the ground and the ATV driver drove on top of his left leg, police say, before fleeing.
The police officer was taken to Jamaica Hospital in stable condition, but he had "extensive cuts and scrapes to his left leg, a broken vertebrae, a broken nose and bruises to his face."
The ATV was eventually found abandoned in front of 257 Hegeman Avenue, an auto body shop. Police arrested a different ATV driver who was hiding in a mechanical lift, but investigators say they are still looking for the one who hit the cop.
