CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga.,None — A Clayton County police officer was injured in a crash on Thursday while trailing behind a road crew painting lane stripes.
The crash occurred shortly before noon on Interstate 675 in Clayton County, a quarter mile south of Anvil Block Road.
Channel 2 Action News reporter Jeff Dore spoke with Clayton County police spokeswoman Capt. Tina Daniel, who said the officer was following a convoy of trucks striping the right side of the highway. Daniel said the officer was using his flashing emergency lights to alert drivers behind them that the road crew was driving slowly.
Officer Injured In Crash
A food delivery truck apparently hit the officer's patrol car at full freeway speed, blasting its trunk clear forward into the front seat, Daniel said.
WSB-TV Officer Injured In Crash Dore was there as Georgia State Patrol put handcuffed the truck driver and put him into a patrol car. The truck driver, identified as Nicolas Veasley, 32, of Madison, was charged with serious injury by vehicle, following too closely and too fast for conditions, according to a GSP spokesman.
Medical crews loaded the officer, identified as Clinton Nicholas, 38, of Jonesboro, onto a stretcher and into a helicopter. He was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital. Police said the officer's injuries were not life-threatening.
News Chopper 2's Jason Durden flew over the scene, showing the back end of the police car smashed in, and a Royal Foods delivery truck further down with front-end damage. The two damaged vehicles blocked the southbound lanes. Authorities also closed all northbound lanes as authorities investigated the crash.
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