WORCESTER, Mass. — A Worcester Police Officer suffered a serious eye injury after a three-car crash Tuesday afternoon, police said.
According to police, the cruiser was in the crash at the intersection of Grove and Chester Streets around 3 p.m.
Police say two other people were taken to the hospital as a precaution. Their conditions were not known at the time of this posting.
Pat, who asked that her full name not be used, said she was feet away from the three-car pileup that happened in front of her house.
"I heard the crash happened, and I stood right here," she said.
"The officer, they took him out and put him in an ambulance. He was covered up with a towel over his face. Apparently something happened with his eye, he was bleeding out of his eye," she said.
Among the three drivers, a veteran Worcester undercover officer was seriously injured.
"It looks like the vehicle coming down Chester Street didn’t stop at the stop sign, and drove into the side of him. His vehicle was pushed into the other lane. The car coming the other way hit him, almost head on," said Worcester Police Lt. Sean Murtha.
Neighbors say, this intersection has been a problem for some time now. They are just hoping the officer and the other injured people will be OK.
"It’s always a risk, the job we do. This case, it wasn’t emergency driving. It’s the risk we all take when we drive," Murtha said.
Boston 25 News is not releasing the officer's name or where he is being hospitalized because he works in the undercover unit.
The three drivers involved all have non-life-threatening injuries.
Cox Media Group
