Delaware: K-9 Struck
K-9 INJURED: A Delaware state trooper’s K-9 companion was badly injured Saturday night when a drunk driver from New Jersey slammed into the officer’s vehicle while he was pulled over on the side of the road in Glasgow, State Police said. The trooper at 8:42 p.m. stopped on Route 40 westbound, in front of State Police’s Troop 2 station on Lagrange Avenue, to help someone who had run out of gas, said Master Cpl. Melissa Jaffe of State Police. He pulled up behind the disabled Jeep Cherokee and turned on his flashing emergency lights. A Glassboro, New Jersey, woman, who was driving an unregistered Land Rover and didn’t have her headlights on, hit the trooper’s vehicle, pushing it into the Jeep, Jaffe said. The trooper and the driver of the Cherokee were not inside their vehicles at the time of the crash and were not injured. Tomi, the officer’s K-9, was badly hurt, however. He was taken to the Veterinary Specialty Center of Delaware, a 24-hour animal hospital near New Castle, Saturday night and flown to the University of Pennsylvania’s veterinary hospital on Sunday, Jaffe said. She said the dog’s injuries are considered serious, but not life-threatening. On Facebook, Ryan Quackenbush, Tomi’s partner, said the dog has a punctured leg, a cut over his eye, a broken tooth, a lacerated tongue, a partially fractured pelvis and a concussion. “Tomi remained in ICU overnight for observation,” Quackenbush said on Facebook. “The doctor’s concern this morning is that Tomi is doing worse neurologically with his balance and back injury.” The driver of the Land Rover, 36, was taken to Christiana Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
She has been cited for driving under the influence, as well as operating an unregistered motor vehicle, failing to change lanes for a stopped emergency vehicle, failure to have her lights on and inattentive driving.
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