Police said officers were responding to a 911 call of a man with a gun on Friday when they crashed into the bus in East Vancouver.
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The Vancouver Police Department says two officers are in hospital with broken legs after their vehicle collided with a transit bus.
Officers from the emergency response section were responding to a 911 call of a man with a gun on Friday when they crashed into the bus in East Vancouver.
Police said the bus driver and two passengers were also taken to hospital for non-life threatening injuries and have since been released.
Both officers were seriously injured and extracted from their vehicle by firefighters and paramedics, according to police.
The incident occurred near East 41st Avenue and Dumfries Street in East Vancouver.
The police department’s collision investigation unit is reviewing the crash.
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