An officer with the Radcliff Police Department is recovering after being dragged by a vehicle he attempted to pull over Monday.
“At about 11:15 p.m., one of our officers, Officer Ryan Boyd, made a traffic stop down on Centennial Avenue over on the west side of Dixie Avenue near the intersection of Centennial and South Wilson Road,” said Radcliff Police Chief Jeff Cross.
Officer Boyd had pulled the vehicle over for speeding. Cross says the driver of the vehicle, a 17-year-old male, allegedly became nervous, and Boyd sensed this.
“He had the door open, trying to get the subject out of the vehicle, and the subject started it up,” said Cross. “The officer reached in across him to try to shut off the ignition, and he took off.”
The vehicle continued, with Boyd hanging on, through the intersection and east on Centennial. The vehicle left the roadway and went into the parking lot of an appliance parts store.
“He hit a mailbox, a UPS box, struck a small tree, and hit a pillar on the building and threw the officer out of the vehicle against the pillar,” Cross said.
The driver fled the scene on foot, but was apprehended a short time later.
Cross says Boyd was transported to the University of Louisville Hospital, and was scheduled to be released Tuesday afternoon.
