The sole Middlemarch police officer was uninjured after she
crashed into the end of a bridge near Sutton, Strath Taieri,
yesterday morning, but charges could be laid, police said.
Sergeant Tania Baron, of the Dunedin strategic traffic unit,
said Constable Helen Fincham-Putter, the officer in charge of
the Middlemarch station, was returning from a job in a marked
four-wheel-drive police car when the incident happened about
9.15am.
While she was driving south on Sutton-Mt Ross Rd, the car
lost traction on a bridge with wooden slats.
The car skidded and hit an "arm" at the end of the bridge,
extensively damaging the front of the vehicle, Sgt Baron
said.
There were no passengers in the car.
Sgt Baron said the investigation into the crash would be the
same as for any member of the public, including the
likelihood of charges.
Const Fincham-Putter has been given a police vehicle from
Dunedin to use.
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