West Virginia: Deputies Say Cruiser Was Struck By Elderly Man With Low Blood Sugar

Kanawha County deputies said the driver whose vehicle struck a St. Albans police cruiser is an 80-year-old man whose blood sugar was determined to be dangerously low after he was transported to the hospital.

A Kanawha County deputy responded to the accident about 10 p.m. Thursday to a crash in St. Albans involving a city police cruiser. A St. Albans police officer was in the 1400 block of MacCorkle Avenue assisting a motorist who stopped driving because of a medical issue, according to a news release from the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office.

The police officer parked his cruiser behind the other car, and activated the emergency lights of the cruiser, a 2013 Chevrolet Impala Police Interceptor. While the officer was outside the cruiser helping the motorist, the police car was struck in a rear-end collision by another vehicle, the release said.

The driver of the vehicle that struck the cruiser sustained minor injuries in the crash. He was transported to Thomas Memorial Hospital where it was learned his blood sugar was dangerously low. He had no recollection of the crash or the hour before the crash.

No others were injured in the crash, and no other vehicles were struck. The Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority treated the man whose vehicle struck the cruiser and transported him to the hospital.