Vehicle hits police car en route to jail

A Colorado Springs police officer and a prisoner riding in a patrol car received minor injuries Tuesday night when a vehicle broadsided the police cruiser on the city's west side.

The patrol car was headed east on U.S. 24 near 21st Street at 8:38 p.m. on its way to the county jail when the accident occurred, police said. The officer and the prisoner, neither named in a release on the incident, were treated for minor injuries at Memorial Hospital. The officer will be returned to light duty and the prisoner was taken to the jail.

The unnamed motorist was cited for careless driving, the report said.