St. Louis Officer Struck by Vehicle, Critically Injured

A St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officer was critically injured in a crash Monday morning.

According to police, an officer was struck by a vehicle in the express lanes on Interstate 70. It originally started with a carjacking investigation and led to a chase, police said in a press conference.

The officer was rushed to the hospital in a police cruiser with a serious injury to his leg. He is listed in a critical but stable condition, Fox 2 reports.

“It shows the dangerous work our officers are out there doing each and every day, and if it wasn’t for the quick action of the officers on the scene—putting him in one of our Tahoe’s, clearing out down Kingshighway, getting him to Barnes Hospital—it could’ve been even worse than it is right now,” SLMPD Chief Robert Tracy said. “Pretty much saved his life.”