First responders helped a Philadelphia Police officer himself onto a stretcher after a crash in the Frankford neighborhood Thursday afternoon.
The wreck at Cheltenham and Frankford avenues around 12:30 p.m. left that officer and his partner with non-life-threatening injuries, said police.
Police expected both officers to be treated at Temple University Hospital and released.
As SkyForce10 hovered overhead a short time later you could see the officer getting out of his police sport utility vehicle and onto a stretcher before being wheeled to a waiting ambulance. A second SUV -- a Toyota Rav4 -- crashed nearby.
The 15th District officers were responding to an officer assist call, driving southbound on Frankford Avenue when the Rav4 -- going eastbound on Cheltenham -- struck the police vehicle, said police.
Doctors at Frankford-Torresdale Hospital treated two people in the Rav4 for minor injuries, said police.
Police didn't immediately file any charges.
