2 Cobb officers nearly killed after Lexus plows into parked patrol car, takes off

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Two police officers are recovering after an SUV hit their patrol car and kept going.

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Channel 2′s Cobb County Bureau Chief Michele Newell was near I-75 northbound and Delk Road, where the crash happened just before 3 a.m. Sunday. The officers were responding to a crash and the cruiser was stopped with its lights on when a white Lexus side-swiped the vehicle and kept going. The officers, who haven’t been identified, were rushed to the hospital. The police cruiser was left barely recognizable.

Investigators said the driver of the Lexus was impaired.

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The Cobb Police Department’s real-time crime center later spotted the Lexus with clear damage to its front end.

The officers are pretty banged up, but expected to make a full recovery.

Newell spoke to driver Josh Brown, who said the he hopes the officers will be ok.

“It’s scary knowing that they’re out to help somebody and they are getting hurt in the line of duty too,” Brown said. “I mean, this is a major accident.”

Driver Kyndra Brown said she feels like drivers are not paying attention.

“I feel like out here, they just don’t care,” Kyndra Brown said. “They just be driving to get to where they gotta go.”

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