VA Officer Saves Partner from Careening Car

Two Gate City, VA, police officers are OK after a car crashed into a patrol car parked on the side of the road over the weekend.

The Gate City Police Department told WJHL officers Jessica McGraw and Matthew Stewart were investigating a crash Sunday evening on U.S. Highway 23 when the incident happened.

The officers were standing next to McGraw’s patrol car on the side of the road when a white car traveling in the opposite direction lost control, crossed the median, and hit the parked patrol car.

Video of the incident shows Stewart grabbing McGraw and pulling her out of the path of the spinning patrol car. According to the police department, McGraw then checked on the driver of the white car and called for rescue and fire units to respond to the scene.

The police department said the officers escaped without serious injury and both are expected to return to duty.