By Greg Grisolano
ggrisolano@joplinglobe.com
FRONTENAC, Kan. — A police officer and a passenger were injured in a one-vehicle accident Friday morning after the officer lost control of his police vehicle and it overturned, according to a news release from the Crawford County Sheriff’s Department.
At about 12:39 a.m. Friday, Gary E. Goddard, 34, was northbound on 260th Street, about a mile and a half north of Highway 160, when he drove off the roadway and overcorrected, and the car overturned several times in the east ditch. Goddard and his passenger, Amy J. Jones, 24, Frontenac, were transported to Mount Carmel Medical Center in Pittsburg for treatment. The car, a 2003 Chevrolet Impala, was totaled.
The accident report described their injuries as moderate, but condition reports were not available Saturday night.
Frontenac police Chief Carl Flora declined to comment on the details of the accident and referred the matter to the! Crawford County Sheriff’s Department, which worked the crash.
“It’s a personnel matter,” Flora said Saturday. “I’m not at liberty to make any comment at this time, other than I want the people of Frontenac to know we’re still investigating this. It will be dealt with.”
Crawford County Sheriff Sandy Horton said Goddard and Jones, who also works for Frontenac as a police dispatcher, were on their way to Mulberry to pick up a woman and transport her to a safe house in Pittsburg.
“It’s my understanding (Goddard’s) mother works for Safe House, and called him directly,” he said, adding he didn’t know what caused Goddard to initially lose control of the vehicle.
Standard procedure
Sheriff Sandy Horton said that it is “standard police procedure” for a male officer to bring a female officer or police employee along on calls in which an officer is transportin! g a female, to serve as a witness for the male officer’s! conduct .
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