Car crash sends Visalia Police officer to hospital

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Visalia police officer is back at work tonight after a car crash sent him to the hospital.

The officer's cruiser and another vehicle were struck by a third driver just after midnight on West Riggin Avenue near north Shirk Road.

The video from an ABC30 insider shows CHP officers investigating the crash.

A witness tells us one of the drivers ran a stop sign and hit the police cruiser and another car.

Paramedics took the Visalia officer to Kaweah Delta Hospital with minor injuries.

He was released this morning.