THREE police officers were injured, one seriously, and taken to hospital after being struck by a car at the National Arboretum this afternoon (July 11).
One suffered a broken leg, one a back injury and the other a shoulder injury.
At about 2.50pm, the three were conducting a routine traffic stop of a vehicle on Forest Drive when a green Ford sedan ran into the police officers on the side of the road. The driver is in custody.
Superintendent Corey Heldon said the police were investigating whether the driver deliberately drove at the officers.
“Police being deliberately injured while they are doing their job is never acceptable,” he said.
“I am thankful these three officers are alive; however, one of them is seriously injured. The consequences of this incident could easily have been much worse.
“I ask anyone who saw this incident who has not spoken to police to do so as soon as possible, in order to enable us to fully investigate the circumstances.”
Anyone with information or dash-cam footage should call 131444.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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