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Two po­lice of­fi­cers and a civil­ian sus­tained in­juries in a two-ve­hi­cle col­li­sion along the Uri­ah But­ler High­way near Freeport on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Ini­tial re­ports in­di­cate that around 3:05 a.m., a po­lice con­sta­ble was dri­ving a marked po­lice ve­hi­cle south along the high­way in the left lane, ac­com­pa­nied by a fe­male of­fi­cer.

Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 100 me­tres be­fore the John Pe­ter Walkover, they heard a loud noise and felt an im­pact. The po­lice ve­hi­cle spun and came to a stop fac­ing north­east on the ex­treme right lane. They then saw the dri­ver of a blue Maz­da 3, which had end­ed up in a ditch on the east­ern side of the high­way, stag­ger­ing as he ex­it­ed the ve­hi­cle.