{"id":220361,"date":"2025-04-14T10:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=220361"},"modified":"2025-04-14T10:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:04:13","slug":"two-georgia-police-officers-badly-injured-after-patrol-car-slammed-during-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=220361","title":{"rendered":"Two Georgia Police Officers Badly Injured After Patrol Car Slammed During Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A police chase in Polk County sent two officers to the hospital and left one of their patrol cars in flames. The suspect? Still on the run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why It Matters:<\/strong> Two people who signed up to protect a community are now fighting for their health after being blindsided in the line of duty. And the person who nearly killed them is still out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong> Saturday night, a suspect fleeing from law enforcement slammed into a patrol car at nearly 100 miles per hour. The force of the impact ignited one of the vehicles. Both officers survived but suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One officer has been in surgery for over 10 hours.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The other has head trauma and memory loss.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udc8c <strong>How You Can Help:<\/strong><br>People looking to support the officers can drop off cards at the Polk County Superior Court Clerk\u2019s Office or mail them to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officer C and Officer M<br>Polk County Superior Court Clerk<br>100 Prior St, Room 106<br>Cedartown, GA 30125<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drop-offs are accepted 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday. After hours, cards can be left through a slot at the same address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd0d <strong>Catch Up Quick:<\/strong> Polk County Police say they&#8217;re continuing the search for the suspect and are asking for tips from the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=46]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police chase in Polk County sent two officers to the hospital and left one of their patrol cars in flames. The suspect? Still on the run. Why It Matters: Two people who signed up to protect a community are now fighting for their health after being blindsided in the line of duty. And the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":16288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[17679,17680],"class_list":["post-220361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-police-officers","tag-polk-county-police","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}