A Hartford police officer was hospitalized with minor injuries after a driver lost control on an icy road just after midnight on Sunday and crashed into a cruiser.
Hartford Officer Steve McCullough, 36, was investigating a motor vehicle accident at 960 Main St. in the capital city involving someone who evaded responsibility when the crash happened at about 12:04 a.m. Nasean Banks, 22, of Windsor, was traveling in the southbound direction on the road when he slid on some ice and hit McCullough's police cruiser. The collision pushed the police car into a car parked along the curb on the east side of the road.
McCullough was treated at St. Francis Hospital for minor, non-evident injuries and was released. He went home afterward per doctor's orders.
The damage to the police car left it inoperable, so it has been placed out of service.
