Oakdale police, Stanislaus sheriff units in minor-injury crash

A few minutes before midnight Wednesday, an Oakdale Police Department unit and a Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department unit collided at Crows Landing and Hatch roads.

The police officer and two prisoners he was transporting suffered minor injuries, the California Highway Patrol reported.

A motorist who went through the area messaged The Bee shortly before 1 a.m. to say the two vehicles were “really jacked up” and there was “glass all over the place.”

An early report from the CHP said the sheriff’s deputy was driving east on Hatch, approaching the Crows Landing intersection. The Oakdale officer was southbound on Crows Landing. The vehicles collided in the intersection.

Traffic signals control the intersection, but the CHP report did not say which driver was at fault. CHP spokesman Officer Thomas Olsen said Thursday afternoon that the investigation still is in its early stages.

A Sheriff’s Department lieutenant said the deputy, who was on routine patrol, was not hurt. The Oakdale police officer was taking two prisoners to the Stanislaus County Public Safety Center on Hackett Road, off Crows Landing, Olsen said.

The CHP report did not release the names of those involved. It said the deputy is 29 years old, the police officer 25 years old, and the prisoners, both from Oakdale, are 31 and 25.

This story was originally published August 16, 2018 at 9:46 AM.