ERPD Officer Crashes Car

An East Ridge Police officer was involved in a single car crash, Sunday afternoon, officials said.

According to a press release from the department, while responding to a “Burglary in progress” call on DuPont St., an East Ridge Police Department patrol car was involved in a single vehicle traffic crash. While negotiating a turn, the car left the roadway striking a chain link fence and a tree. There were no injuries.

The traffic crash is being investigated by the Tennessee Highway Patrol, standard procedure for the department.

Additionally, other units responding to the burglary call encountered a group of juveniles in the vicinity. That investigation is continuing. No arrests have been made.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.