On June 18, 2008, an on-duty police officer was driving on U.S. 231 in Pell City, Alabama, when a tractor-trailer truck hit the driver’s side of the patrol car. The police officer was seriously injured in the truck accident, and was airlifted to an area hospital with injuries requiring surgery.

Authorities are not releasing an official cause of the tractor-trailer truck accident, though Alabama State Troopers are investigating.

Source: David Atchison, “Alabama officer sideswiped by tractor trailer,” Officer.com, June 19, 2008.