A Lake Country Mountie was injured on Sunday, when a distraught man rammed the police car he was in to evade police.
RCMP received a call shortly before 1 p.m. that a man was yelling and acting erratically outside of his home on Beaver Lake Road in Kelowna.
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Lake Country RCMP were on scene to assist Kelowna RCMP, in an attempt to de-escalate the situation.
The distraught man got into his car and rammed one of the police vehicles twice before fleeing.
The 66-year-old man was apprehended by police under the Mental Health Act when he returned home.
The Lake Country RCMP officer whose police vehicle was rammed is recovering from non-life threatening injuries.
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