Three PSNI officers injured after car repeatedly rammed

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Three PSNI officers were injured after a driver rammed a police patrol car and collided with two other vehicles during an incident of dangerous driving in Derry last night.

Three PSNI officers were injured after a driver rammed a police patrol car and collided with two other vehicles during an incident of dangerous driving in Derry last night.

It happened just before 10pm when officers on patrol in the Glenabbey Estate area of the city were approaching the Skeoge Link and spotted a red Mercedes C220 which appeared to be diffing at the roundabout.

Officers recognised the car as a vehicle which had failed to stop for them earlier that evening while engaging in similar behaviour in the same area.

They approached the car and activated their emergency lights. However, the Mercedes then accelerated towards the stationary police car, ramming it head on.

Two police officers exited the vehicle and attempted to arrest the driver. However, he continued to ram the police vehicle several times while they tried to remove him from the car.

While doing so, the Mercedes also reversed into a third vehicle, owned by a member of the public.

After ramming the police car and the other vehicle several times, the driver of the Mercedes drove towards one of the officers before making off on the wrong side of the carriageway in the direction of the Buncrana Road.

"This was incredibly reckless and dangerous behaviour which resulted in three police officers being injured and attending hospital for treatment, with a police vehicle and two members of the public's vehicles also damaged," a PSNI spokesperson said.

Police are appealing for witnesses and information about the incident.

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