State Police ID Officer Hit By Driver In Fitchburg

Worcester MA

17 February, 2022

11:46 AM

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BOYLSTON, MA — State police have identified the officer who was hit by a car on Wednesday in Fitchburg as a member of the Boylston Police Department. The Boylston officer was acting as a member of the Worcester County Drug Task force when he and other police went to a Fitchburg home to serve a search warrant. The man who police were seeking hit the officer when he fled his Mechanic Street home in a car, state police said in a news release. The Boylston officer was taken to UMass Memorial in Worcester for treatment of non-life threatening injuries Police spent much of day on Wednesday searching for the man who hit the officer, but did not immediately announce any arrests.