MIAMI (WSVN) - A woman was taken into custody after an overnight crash left a City of Miami Police officer in the hospital.
Police and fire rescue units responded to the scene along Northwest Third Avenue and 14th Street at around 3 a.m., Thursday after the officer’s unmarked police car was crashed into.
7News cameras captured a uniformed officer being loaded up into an ambulance with an apparent wound to his head.
The officer was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center with a broken shoulder and head injuries.
A construction crew member working in the area said they were working on a bridge, and the injured officer was working a safety detail to alert drivers the road was closed.
Back at the scene, cameras showed a woman, later identified as Belkis Salgado, taking a field sobriety test, which officials said she failed.
According to the arrest report, her speech was slurred, her eyes were bloodshot and she had trouble balancing.
A few minutes later, she was put in handcuffs and taken away.
Salgado has been charged with driving under the influence and causing serious injury to a police officer.
Miami officers taped off the intersection for about three hours before it was reopened at 6 a.m.
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