PHOENIX — A woman is in custody after a trooper rammed her vehicle following an attempted traffic stop in Phoenix overnight.
Arizona Department of Public Safety say the incident happened around 11 p.m. Sunday when a trooper tried to stop a vehicle along Loop 202 near 44th Street.
The driver reportedly failed to stop and went the wrong way down the 44th Street on-ramp frontage road, and a trooper rammed the vehicle in an effort to stop it. The trooper suffered minor injuries during the collision and was taken to the hospital as a precaution.
Another vehicle was also swiped by the suspect driver during the incident, causing some damage to that vehicle but no serious injuries to its driver.
A 42-year-old woman driving the suspect vehicle was taken into custody, DPS says. She was booked into jail on charges of assault, criminal damage, and numerous drug offenses, with additional pending charges for driving under the influence of drugs.
