INDIANAPOLIS POLICE OFFICER HURT AFTER BEING HIT BY CAR ON INDIANAPOLIS'S EAST SIDE
Two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officers are recovering after they were hurt while chasing a suspect on Indianapolis's east side. Both officers were on the job so we are awaiting word on any possible work comp related injuries.
According to www.theindychannel.com's "Two Officers Injured in Chase," one of the injured Indianapolis police officers was hurt after a suspect's car struck him. The second Indianapolis police officer was injured after hitting a barbed-wire fence while running after the suspect.
Indiana investigators say this chase all started when officers received a report of someone trying to use a forged check and then that someone tried to get away in a car. Eventually, the fleeing suspect got into an SUV and crashed the vehicle into a parked car. He was arrested.
Police officers in Indiana and throughout the world can suffer numerous injuries while on the job and that are work comp related. An Australian study on Injury Statistics for Police Officers found that hand and fingers and back injuries are the most common.
The Howard County Sheriff's Department in Central Indiana is reporting that a deputy is recovering after his cruiser was struck head-on by a pickup truck on U. S. 31. The accident reportedly occurred south of United States Road 35 when James Smith of Dixon, Kentucky, hit a patch of black ice and lost control of his truck and moved across lanes into the path of Deputy Keith Chesshir's squad car, striking it on the driver's side door. 
State police reported that twenty-eight cars and five semi trucks were involved in a chain reaction collision. Two people riding in a semi truck were killed and one person was critically injured. Ten others were taken to nearby hospitals, and police reported multiple entrapments with injuries. 

