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Vancouver police officers suffer broken legs in crash with transit bus

Firefighters respond to a crash between a police vehicle and a transit bus in Vancouver Friday night. Ryan Stelting

Two Vancouver police officers suffered broken legs in a collision with a transit bus on Friday night.

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It happened around 11:15 p.m. near East 41st Avenue and Dumfries Streets.

Vancouver police say the officers, members of the emergency response team, were responding to a call about a man with a gun in East Vancouver with lights and sirens activated when they collided with the bus.

Firefighters extracted the officers from the vehicle, and they were transported to hospital.

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The bus driver and three passengers were also taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and have since been released, police said.

The crash is being investigated by the VDP’s collision investigation unit.

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