COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Four people have been hospitalized after a car struck a Columbus police cruiser while officers were transporting a prisoner to jail.

According to police, a car slammed into the driver’s side of a CPD cruiser at the intersection of Marconi Boulevard and West Broad Street in Downtown Columbus. Two officers were in the cruiser as was a prisoner, who was being transported from police headquarters to jail.

Two officers and a prisoner were injured when a Columbus police cruiser was struck by a suspected drunk driver, Feb. 23, 2024. (NBC4/Ronald Clark)

The car was T-boned by a suspected drunk driver, who ran a red light at the intersection. The driver attempted to flee the scene, but officers caught up with him at the intersection of West Broad Street and Belle Street, a couple of blocks across the Scioto River.

All four people involved in the crash were taken to area hospitals in stable condition, including both officers, who were taken to Grant Medical Center. The Eastbound lanes of West Broad St. were temporarily closed between McDowell Street and Civic Center Drive but have since reopened.