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Officer’s car hits girl on bicycle

LaFAYETTE, Ga. – A LaFayette police lieutenant crashed his car into a teenage girl on a bicycle Tuesday night.

Police Chief Bengie Clift said the 16-year-old rode her bike west on Simmons Street around 7 p.m. Then, at the intersection with Cherokee Street, she failed to brake and collided with a police cruiser driven by Lt. Robert Dunn, Clift said.

The girl slid up the car, rolled back down and fell onto the pavement. Clift said she went to T.C. Thompson Children’s Hospital at Erlanger on Tuesday night.

Clift said that, at the time of the crash, the victim complained only of “a couple of scratches.” But he said she remained in the hospital on Wednesday.