A Sacramento County sheriff’s deputy was hit by a rolling patrol car while wrestling with a man on the roadside, the agency said.
Both combatants suffered superficial injuries.
The incident was touched off shortly before 3:30 p.m. Thursday when two deputies in a marked patrol vehicle were driving in the North Highlands area, near the Sacramento airport. A man walking along the road allegedly threw a “hard object” that hit the windshield.
Both deputies got out of the car, and they ended up fighting with the man. “As they struggled on the ground,” the department’s account said, “the patrol vehicle began slowly rolling backwards towards them.”
One deputy abandoned the fight, ran to the car and was able to engage the brakes just as it hit the two people on the ground.
Both were taken to a hospital, where it was determined they had only been scraped.
The man who allegedly threw the object was arrested on suspicion of unspecified felony and misdemeanor charges associated with the encounter as well as a suspended parole hold for an attempted homicide in 2015, the department said.
The California Highway Patrol is investigating the collision, and the sheriff’s internal affairs investigators will attempt to determine why “the vehicle was rolling unoccupied.”
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