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A couple blocks of both California and Hawthorne streets were closed briefly this evening after a woman in a Chevrolet Volt blew through a stop sign and collided with a Eureka Police Department vehicle. Nobody was seriously injured.

According to EPD Sgt. Ed Wilson, the EPD officer was driving northbound on California when the Volt ran the stop sign on Hawthorne, next to the California Market convenience store, and hit the officer’s vehicle in the middle of the intersection.

“When we arrived he was out of the vehicle,” Wilson said of the officer. “He had a little bit of complaint in his shoulder but nothing significant at this point. The ambulance came her to check on him. He declined any type of medical assistance. We’ll assess him, see if he’ll stay with us the rest of the day or go home early.”

The driver of the Volt appeared uninjured. When the Outpost arrived on scene she had backed her car out of the intersection and was standing around, waiting to talk to the officers.

Sgt. Wilson said EPD will not investigate the accident themselves. “It’s going to be investigated by the California Highway Patrol as it involved one of our, one of my subordinates,” he said. The independent investigation will ensure objectivity, he said.