{"id":72213,"date":"2025-12-16T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/72213\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:30:08","slug":"brooklyn-nypd-officers-injured-in-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/72213\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn NYPD officers injured in hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-458624057.webp\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"NYPD patch on uniform\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"NYPD officers struck by hit-and-run driver during Brooklyn traffic stop 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>FILE \u2013 The NYPD logo.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Getty Images\/Tillsonbrug<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Police are on the hunt for a reckless driver who injured two <a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> police officers during a traffic stop\u00a0on Tuesday morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, the incident unfolded at around 4:39 a.m. on Dec. 16 near West 8th Street and Quentin Road in Gravesend, where officers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd62pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">62nd Precinct<\/a> pulled over a vehicle they spotted speeding through a red light.<\/p>\n<p>After getting the driver of the gray Mercedes to stop, the officers left their marked police cruiser and approached the car. When they did so, police reported, the Mercedes driver suddenly moved the vehicle in reverse, hitting both cops.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137818201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-16-at-8.58.30-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Scene of Brooklyn hit-and-run involving NYPD officers\" width=\"1200\" height=\"820\" title=\"NYPD officers struck by hit-and-run driver during Brooklyn traffic stop 2\"  \/>According to police sources, the incident unfolded at around 4:39 a.m. on Dec. 16 near West 8th Street and Quentin Road in Gravesend, where officers from the 62nd Precinct pulled over a vehicle they spotted speeding through a red light.Photo via Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>The suspect then sped away in the Mercedes, heading westbound on Quentin Road.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed both officers to a local hospital for treatment of minor injuries to their legs. They were listed in stable condition.\n<\/p>\n<p>So far, no arrests have been made in the ongoing investigation. Police sources described the driver as a man last seen wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the incident can call Crime Stoppers at\u00a0800-577-TIPS\u00a0(for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE \u2013 The NYPD logo. Photo by Getty Images\/Tillsonbrug &#13; &#13; Police are on the hunt for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,303,9,24,63,103,104,20779],"class_list":{"0":"post-72213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nypd","16":"tag-police","17":"tag-traffic-stop"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}