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A Painesville woman sustained minor injuries, but no police officer was injured after allegedly colliding with a Mentor police car in the wee hours of the morning on October 4.
The incident happened around 1:30 a.m., according to a press release from the Town of Mentor. The mentor police were on National Road 2 westbound, west of Center Street, investigating a single vehicle OVI accident. Four police cars were on the scene blocking the two right lanes of traffic.
The 35-year-old was said to have been traveling in the westbound center lane on Route 2 in a 2014 Kia Sorento and struck a police car in the driver’s side door. This police car was pushed into the driver’s side door of a second police car, the statement said. It would then have rolled into the central median wall.
The police cars were unoccupied at the time of the accident.
The woman was arrested for driving a vehicle while intoxicated, OVI exceeding specified limits, duty when approaching law enforcement and lack of control.
Route 2 was closed during the accident investigation. The highway reopened around 2:30 a.m., the statement said.
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