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DeKalb police car crashes

By Ty Tagami
March 11, 2011

A DeKalb County police officer was involved in a crash near the intersection of I-285 and Ashford-Dunwoody Road Friday afternoon as the afternoon commute got under way, according to a county dispatcher.

The DeKalb dispatcher offered few details except that the incident occurred around 4 p.m., involved one county police car and resulted in minor injuries.

A DeKalb p0lice spokeswoman explained that the crash happened near a county police precinct. No one had to be hospitalized, said the spokeswoman, Mekka Parish. "Nothing serious."

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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.

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