Police officer, 1 other injured in Dayton crash

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A police officer and a woman were taken to the hospital after a crash involving a police cruiser in Dayton Tuesday afternoon.

According to the Montgomery County Regional Dispatch Center, the crash was reported at 4:06 p.m. at the intersection of Germantown and S. Broadway streets in Dayton.

Dayton Public Information Officer James Rider said that the cruiser was driving eastbound on Germantown Street when a black Subaru driving the other direction tried to turn left onto Broadway and the two vehicles crashed.

The officer in the cruiser and the woman driving the Subaru were taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Rider said.

Rider said that the cruiser was just on a regular patrol, and didn’t have its lights or sirens on.

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