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A driver was arrested on suspicion of impairment after crashing into a Nevada Highway Patrol Vehicle that was on the right shoulder. (Nevada State Police/Twitter)

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February 18, 2022 - 10:14 am

A driver was arrested on suspicion of impairment after a crash involving a Nevada Highway Patrol vehicle overnight.

According to a Tweet from the Nevada State Police Friday morning, the trooper was finishing a traffic stop on the right shoulder when a car hit the patrol vehicle from behind.

#WhileYouWereSleeping our Trooper was finishing up a traffic stop in the right side shoulder, with his emergency red and blue lights activated, when a car struck his patrol vehicle from behind! The driver was arrested for suspicion of impairment. pic.twitter.com/d2poKfHnfZ

— Nevada State Police Highway Patrol Southern Comm (@NVStatePolice_S) February 18, 2022

The trooper was not seriously injured, but “he will definitely be sore,” the state police Tweeted.

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