BRADENTON BEACH – While on his way to work on Aug. 22, Bradenton Beach Police Officer Steven Masi was sitting in traffic in Palmetto when a car cut across the road in front of him, smashing into the front of his Bradenton Beach Police patrol car.
Masi was not seriously injured, although both the driver and passenger side airbags deployed in the accident, Lt. Lenard Diaz said.
Masi was not at fault in the collision, which did significant damage to the front end of the Ford patrol car.
“There’s been a crash there the past three days in a row,” Diaz said. “It was near Haben Boulevard. People stop and let cars through onto Seventh Street; it’s a bad place for accidents.”
Diaz said the department is still waiting on an estimate, so they don’t yet have the details on how extensive the damage is. In the meantime, the department does have one reserve vehicle.
