Overview
- A mototaxi hit a female police traffic officer during a control stop at the Mexico and San Pablo intersection in La Victoria and kept moving with her trapped against the vehicle.
- Eyewitness video shows the unit continued for a long stretch, with one witness estimating about 130 meters before it stopped.
- Neighbors and another officer intervened to halt the mototaxi, freed the officer, and held the driver until Apolo station police took him into custody.
- The officer was taken to the Police Hospital in Jesús María and remains under observation for multiple contusions, according to local reports.
- Police say they are treating the episode as an accident under investigation, and Caretas reports the driver ran a red light and later tested positive for alcohol.