Two NYPD officers have been harm when a hit-and-run Mercedes driver backed into them throughout a site visitors cease in Brooklyn early Tuesday, cops stated.
The motorist had whizzed by way of a gradual purple gentle in his grey Mercedes C300 round 4:40 a.m. at West eighth Road and Quentin Highway in Gravesend, prompting the eagle-eyed cops to tug him over, cops and police sources stated.
Each officers bought out of their automobile and approached the flashy sedan — however as an alternative of stopping, the motorist reversed and slammed into the cops earlier than driving off, police stated.
The officers have been each taken to a neighborhood hospital, one with minor accidents to his leg and the opposite to his foot, authorities stated.
The alleged fleeing motorist was busted hours later, police stated.
Anas Rao, 20, of Flatlands, was charged with two counts of assault, two counts of reckless endangerment, possession of a solid instrument, vehicular assault and two counts of obstruction of governmental administration, the NYPD stated.
This was his first arrest, in accordance with police.
