Police: Driver arrested after crash into cop car in Brookhaven
Dennis Knapp, left, was charged with driving while intoxicated on March 10, 2018. Credit: SCPD / Andrew Tetreault - Fully Involved Media Group
A Suffolk County police officer was injured in a crash early Saturday when his cruiser was struck by a suspected drunken driver in Brookhaven, police said.
The Fifth Precinct officer was in his parked cruiser at about 3:30 a.m., manning a road closure for downed wires on Montauk Highway at Old South Country Road, when his car was broadsided by a 1996 Jeep driven by Dennis Knapp, 28, police said.
The police officer, who was not identified, was taken to Stony Brook University Medical Center to be treated for nonlife-threatening injuries, authorities said.
Knapp, of Rockledge Drive in Shirley, was taken to Long Island Medical Center in East Patchogue to be treated for nonlife-threatening injuries from the crash.
Police charged Knapp with driving while intoxicated. He is set to be arraigned Sunday morning at First District Court in Central Islip.
John Asbury is a breaking news and general assignment reporter. He has been with Newsday since 2014 and previously worked at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California.
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