By Police1 Staff
LAS VEGAS — A Nevada Highway Patrol officer suffered minor injuries after a driver slammed into his vehicle during a traffic stop.
According to local news station KTNV, Trooper Adam Whitmarsh was speaking to the driver of the car he pulled over when 23-year-old Benjamin Perri slammed into Whitmarsh’s cruiser, forcing him to jump out of the way. The hit also caused the cruiser to slam into the car of the driver Whitmarsh pulled over.
“Looking at it I was wondering what I was thinking that moment, but I was shocked it just happened so fast,” Whitmarsh told the news source.
The officer became a trooper because impaired driving hits close to home. He lost his father when he was 2 years old to a drunk driver.
“We handle DUI drivers the most, its a subject that matters to state troopers, so from there it fueled me to become a trooper,” he said.