Ah, Monday afternoon in the Hub City. The sun is shining, the dust is blowing, and our local law enforcement is out there making sure the streets remain a chaotic free-for-all. Just after 1:30 p.m. yesterday, a Lubbock Police Department officer decided to liven things up at the intersection of 19th Street and Frankford Avenue by getting into a crash while responding to a call. Because nothing says “help is on the way” quite like creating a brand-new emergency en route.
According to the LPD, the officer had their lights and sirens blaring. As any seasoned Lubbock driver knows, emergency sirens are local shorthand for “please panic, freeze in the middle of the intersection, or completely ignore the giant flashing vehicle.” The predictable result of this cultural phenomenon was one minor injury, one moderate injury, and a whole lot of ruined commutes.
Naturally, the Major Crash Investigation Unit had to roll out to the scene, presumably to figure out how two vehicles managed to smash into each other in a town where the roads are laid out in a perfectly flat, predictive grid. The public was urged to avoid the area, which is honestly solid advice for 19th and Frankford even when there isn’t a mangled squad car blocking traffic.
You have to wonder: did the officer ever actually make it to that original call for service, or did they just decide that investigating their own accident was a much better use of a Monday afternoon?
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