PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A woman was arrested Friday after she hit an officer with her car and fled a traffic stop in North Philadelphia.
It all unfolded around 2 p.m. near the intersection of Marshall Street and Lehigh Avenue. Officers said as they conducted a live stop — a department policy that allows officers to impound a car for serious traffic violations, an expired registration or lack of registration — on a red Chrysler Sebring, the driver, a 20-year-old woman, reversed her car and lightly hit the officer’s vehicle. No damage was reported.
Officers told her to put the car in park, but she instead put it in drive and struck an officer who was standing near her driver’s side door. The officer was not injured.
The woman then fled northbound on Sixth Street before she crashed into two homes on the 2800 block of North Eighth Street and ran off toward Somerset Street.
Xaid, who lives next to one of the homes, said his aunt was outside when it happened.
“When I came outside, I just saw the car there. And then, like, when I started getting more information, like the car almost crushed my auntie.”
He said his aunt then chased the woman, grabbed her and hit her.
Police later arrested the woman at a nearby hospital. They say she faces several charges, including assault on police.