- Credit: Archant
A police officer was knocked unconscious and his colleague hurled into the grass verge after a car collided with their vehicle during a routine stop on the North Devon Link Road.
It happened on Friday, January 8 as the pair from the roads policing unit stopped at 5.42om to assist a driver who had broken down on a stretch of the northbound carriageway near Landkey.
About 15 minutes later, a Citroën C4 hit the back of the police car, which hit both officers, hurling the sergeant into the verge and leaving a constable unconscious under the police vehicle.