A Gwinnett County teenager had to be apprehended via K9 Sunday after driving an RV into a fire truck, police said.
Gwinnett police spokesman Cpl. Collin Flynn said the 17-year-old Lilburn resident — who did not have a driver's license — was driving the RV on Five Forks-Trickum Road when he "struck the rear of a passenger car in front of him."
"After that collision, [he] traveled into the next lane of travel and struck a Gwinnett County fire truck," Flynn wrote in a news release.
The teen drove away but was followed by a witness. Police officers soon found the RV too, and the teenager tried to run away.
"Officers set up a perimeter and [the suspect] was apprehended with the assistance of a K9 unit," Flynn said.
Photos taken by the police department showed significant damage to both the RV and fire truck, but no injuries were reported in that collision. The driver of the first vehicle hit by the RV was taken to Eastside Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries, Flynn said.
The teen was arrested and charged with hit-and-run, obstruction and fleeing or attempting to elude, along with a number of traffic violations. As of Monday morning, he remained in the Gwinnett County jail in lieu of $6,501 bond.
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