2 people seriously injured after crash involving officers near Fillmore

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - Three people were in the hospital after a crash near Fillmore late Friday night.

Authorities said the crash happened just before 11:00 p.m. on Sinton Road, between Garden of the Gods and Fillmore. Police said two police cruisers were heading to a burglary in progress when another vehicle traveling in the opposite direction veered out of its lane and into the lane with the officers’ vehicles.

Police said all three vehicles collided and all three drivers were transported to the hospital. Officials said that one of the officers and the driver of the civilian vehicle had serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

Colorado Springs police said impairment is suspected to have contributed to the crash.

Around 1 p.m. Saturday, police said in a blotter entry that “Officer True is in good spirits.”

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