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UPDATE: Driver identified in crash with police cruiser


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Three people were injured in a crash when a Jeep turned into the path of a Murfreesboro Police officer about 12:30 a.m. Thursday on Northwest Broad Street and West Clark Boulevard, a state trooper said.

Jeep driver Brian Carr suffered life-threatening injuries and was flown by LifeFlight helicopter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, said Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Michael Marvin.

Rutherford County Emergency Medical Services paramedics treated Officer Matthew Garrett and another passenger in the Jeep, who suffered minor injuries, before they were transported to Middle Tennessee Medical Center. They were treated and released.

Marvin said Garrett was driving his patrol car on Northwest Broad Street when the Jeep turned into his path and the patrol car T-boned the jeep.

Carr failed to yield to the Jeep, the trooper said. Garrett was unable to stop.

“When Brian’s Jeep Wrangler hit the curb, Brian wasn’t wearing a seat belt so he got ejected out the passenger window,” Marvin said. “He was trapped and had to be extricated.”

Carr was believed drinking alcohol before the crash, Marvin said.

He remains hospitalized at Vanderbilt.

 
 
 
Tagged under  Officer Matthew Garrett, police crash


Member Opinions:
By: larrylee on 1/16/10
cop was prob. doing about 75 mph and on the phone.

By: willis5038 on 1/16/10
Drunk kid turns in front of the cop and its the cop's fault? Really?

By: Macgyver on 1/16/10
"Carr failed to yield to the Jeep", What? I thought Carr was the driver of the Jeep.

By: Jamie on 1/18/10
larrylee.....that was a crappy thing to say. I know all three of these people involved and your comments are unwelcome and undeserved. Do no speak unless you know what you are talking about. Officer Garrett is an outstanding police officer. You obviously have something against police officers. What's the matter? Too many tickets?

It was not the officer's fault. (These writers and their misprints). It was the Jeep driver's fault. Carr was driving the Jeep.

By: Emptypockets on 1/19/10
Larrylee,
Lay off the Hookah pipe for awhile and you might be able to decipher what the reporter meant to say regarding the truth and failed to do so....geezz Wakeup!!!

By: Farmall on 1/19/10
When police officers lie through their teeth to make their tiny traffic ticket stick. Then its no wonder people doubt them when it comes to something serious.

By: Emptypockets on 1/20/10
Farmall,
you must have read a different story than the one I read, the reporter got the FACTS wrong and should have fixed it. Now when I read your comment..Sniff Sniff I can smell what your spreading around!!! The police are human beings too and are subject to making mistakes just like everyone else, but in this case your WRONG...I will pray for your Ignorance!!

By: Farmall on 1/21/10
So you think its wrong for the police to tell the truth?


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