Truck smashed into police car that had stopped speeding driver on freeway in Australia, killing four officers, officials say.
Emergency services work at the scene of a collision near the Chandler Highway in the suburb of Kew in Melbourne, Thursday, April 23, 2020. Officials say a truck has killed four police officers who had detained a drug-affected speeding driver in a collision on an Australian freeway.
It was the largest loss of police lives in a single incident in Victoria state, state police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said. The driver tested positive for an illicit drug, and the police were in an emergency stopping lane arranging to impound the car when they were struck by a refrigerated truck, Ashton said.
The truck's driver was under police guard in a hospital on Thursday after losing consciousness, Ashton said.
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