By David Gambacorta
The Philadelphia Daily News
PHILADELPHIA — Some people take bad news better when they’re sitting down, but Martin Farrell apparently isn’t one of them.
Cops said Farrell, 56, became enraged and started driving erratically last night when his 51-year-old girlfriend told him she was moving on with another man.
The heated dispute came to a screeching halt at about 9 p.m. when Farrell rammed a wall at Glenmore Avenue and 64th Street, in the city’s Elmwood section, and then struck two uniformed police officers, said Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives.
One officer had a minor hand injury; the other one was unharmed.
Farrell continued speeding down Glenmore Avenue after he hit the cops, tearing into parked cars until his car finally flipped over onto its roof, Walker said.
Farrell and his girlfriend were taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in stable condition.
Walker said Farrell, of Magee Avenue near Hasbrook in Northeast Philadelphia, will face charges that include kidnapping and assaults on police.
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