Pursuit ends in police car crash in Robbinsdale

It happened near North Memorial Health Hospital. No one had suffered serious injuries, a Robbinsdale officer at the scene said.

March 13, 2021 at 5:17AM
A Robbinsdale police car crashed Friday night near North Memorial Health Hospital. (Aaron Lavinsky - Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

No serious injuries were reported when a Robbinsdale police squad car crashed late Friday during a pursuit that ended near North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale.

According to scanner reports, a call went out for available police squad cars in the area to respond to the crash at N. Lowry and York avenues, but the call for more backup officers was quickly downgraded. Photos from the scene showed a Robbinsdale police car with extensive front-end damage and air bags deployed.

A Robbinsdale officer at the scene said that no one had suffered serious injuries in the crash. And a Minneapolis police spokesman said that no Minneapolis officers were involved.

It wasn't immediately clear how and why the chase started and ended.

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Liz Sawyer  covers Minneapolis crime and policing at the Star Tribune. Since joining the newspaper in 2014, she has reported extensively on Minnesota law enforcement, state prisons and the youth justice system. 

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