DALLAS — Two Dallas police officers were injured after their patrol car crashed with a pickup truck early Monday, and the truck driver faces a drunk driving charge, police said.
The crash happened near North Field and Ross Avenue around 12:30 a.m. in downtown Dallas, according to a police news release.
The officers were driving north on Field Street when the crash happened.
Police at the scene initially said four people were sent to the hospital - the two officers and two people in the pickup truck - but they later clarified those numbers in a news release Monday morning.
Police said it was one officer who was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, and the other was treated at the scene. The driver of the pickup truck was also taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries. The release did not mention a passenger in the truck.
Henroc Davila-Beltran, the driver of the pickup truck, faces a charge of driving while intoxicated, police said.
The front of the police car was badly damaged in the crash, and the airbags in the truck were deployed.
More information about how the crash happened was not immediately available.
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