Columbus Police Officer Rebecca Lomax and two civilians suffered minor injuries Sunday when her squad car collided with another vehicle — her second wreck this year.
Lomax, 25, pulled over an unidentified man near the intersection of Holly Hills Road and Highway 45 North shortly after noon Sunday.
He told police she pulled up beside him, then gunned her engine and turned back onto Holly Hills. According to Dean Fuller, the son of the civilian driver, 76-year-old Mary Fuller, Lomax passed traffic at the light and was crossing the intersection when she hit his mother”s four-door sedan. Fuller was on her way back from church with two female passengers, ages 78 and 84.
Police sources said Lomax was responding to a call, although the nature of the call and whether she had her emergency lights activated was not immediately known.
Despite severe damage to the vehicles, the women and Lomax — all of whom were wearing their seat belts — only suffered minor injuries, which were treated at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle.
The investigation into the wreck was turned over to the Mississippi Highway Patrol.
The collision Sunday was Lomax”s second this year. She was suspended for a day after her squad car slid on an icy bridge into a pickup truck in February.
Lomax will go before the accident review board, as is standard procedure, and could face suspension again.
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