Mount Airy, NC : Officer sidelined by spinal injury in suspected DWI crash on Sunday, December, 24th 2017
Mount Airy, North Carolina
A Mount Airy police officer is recovering from a spinal injury caused by a weekend traffic crash involving an allegedly impaired driver.
Sgt. L.T. Whitaker was hurt when his patrol vehicle, a newly acquired Ford Interceptor, was struck Saturday night on North Franklin Road by a 2004 Ford Taurus being operated by Cindy Lee Ross, 30 of Mount Airy. Ross is facing multiple violations, including DWI, as a result.
“He has a C7 fracture,” Police Chief Dale Watson said Tuesday of Whitaker, who has been with the Mount Airy Police Department about 12 years. C7 refers to vertebrae at the lowest levels of the cervical spine near the base of the neck.
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Officer sidelined by spinal injury in suspected DWI crash