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By Jeff Burbank / Las Vegas Review-Journal

March 25, 2023 - 2:34 pm

A Las Vegas police officer and a civilian suffered minor injuries in a two-car crash early Saturday afternoon near the College of Southern Nevada.

At 12:10 p.m., a Metropolitan Police Department patrol vehicle and another car collided on the 6300 block of West Charleston Boulevard close to Community College Drive, police reported.

Both the officer and other injured person, whose names were not released, were transported to University Medical Center but not seriously hurt, according to police.

The accident remains under investigation, police said.

Contact Jeff Burbank at jburbank@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0382. Follow him @JeffBurbank2 on Twitter.

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