By Mary Owen and Dan P. Blake
Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO, Ill. — A Chicago police officer on an all-terrain vehicle responding to a robbery call near Jackson Park was hit by a car last night and seriously injured.
The teenage driver of the other vehicle was was issued several traffic tickets related to the collision at East 63rd Street and Stony Island Avenue in the Woodlawn neighborhood about 10:30 p.m.
The 47-year-old Grand Crossing District officer was responding to a robbery call with his emergency lights activated on his ATV, said Officer David Banks. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a serious, but non-life threatening, leg injury.
The driver, Byron Isaac, 18, of the 8800 block of South Langley Avenue, was cited with negligent driving, failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, damage to city property and driving without registration and driving with no insurance, according to Banks.
The robbers apparently escaped.
Isaac stayed on the scene in his Pontiac Grand Am after the accident.
Banks had no further details about the robbery call.
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