An Oxford Village Police patrol car is out of commission after colliding with a pickup truck Saturday night at the downtown intersection of Washington (M-24) and Burdick streets.

No one was injured in the crash.

“The main thing is everybody’s OK,” said Police Chief Mike Solwold.

Because the crash involved a village police unit, the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office was asked to handle the report.

It all started with an on-duty, 53-year-old village officer parked in the lot at 66 N. Washington St., running radar on M-24 traffic. At the time, the officer was behind the wheel of a 2013 Dodge Charger.

Another on-duty village officer, driving a 2018 Chevy Tahoe, pulled along side him and the two began talking. During the course of their conversation, the officer in the Charger observed a southbound vehicle traveling at 53 miles per hour in a 30 mph zone, according to the written statement he submitted to Solwold.

The officer in the Tahoe activated his overhead emergency lights and began pursuing the speeding vehicle in order to initiate a traffic stop. The officer in the Charger followed to provide assistance, if needed.

“I then pulled out seconds behind (the Tahoe) and was approximately 4 to 6 car lengths behind (it),” he wrote.

According to the sheriff’s report, southbound traffic had a green light at the Washington/Burdick intersection, so the Charger proceeded through it. It was then that the police car collided with a 2019 GMC Sierra Denali pickup truck, driven by a 42-year-old Oxford man. The truck was in the process of turning left from northbound M-24 onto W. Burdick St.

The crash “knocked” the Charger “off course,” causing it run off the road and strike the rear of a 1997 Ford Econoline van that was legally parked along M-24, south of Burdick St., according to the sheriff’s report.

“Extensive damage” to the Charger was observed by the deputy.

In the report, the driver of the pickup truck and his passenger, a 59-year-old Oxford woman, stated they saw the Tahoe proceed through the intersection at a high rate of speed with its overhead lights flashing.

After the Tahoe passed, “they did not see any cars coming,” the report stated, so they began making their turn on a flashing red signal. At that point, they collided with the police Charger.

Both the driver and passenger told the deputy the Charger did not have its overhead lights on and they did not see any headlights, either.

“My headlights were on to the best of my recollection,” the officer wrote in his statement to the chief.

Solwold reviewed footage from Charger’s video system and informed the sheriff’s office that it shows the headlights were on, but the emergency lights were not at the time of the crash.

The chief told this reporter his officer “did have the right of way” given the green light and it was not necessary for him to activate his overhead lights because he wasn’t the one looking to make the traffic stop.

“It’s the initiating officer that would have to put the lights on,” Solwold explained. “You don’t typically put your lights on until you’re going to initiate a stop or if you’re going somewhere and you need to get there in a quicker manner . . . He isn’t obligated to put his lights on until he gets up to the scene.”

No citations were issued by the sheriff’s office at the scene and Solwold said his department has no intention of issuing any “at this time.”

As for the Charger’s condition, Solwold is waiting to find out, but he’s assuming it will be a total loss. “It’s got 90,000 miles on it,” he said. “When they pulled it up on the flat bed, the front tire fell off of it. It looked like it was pretty unsalvageable, but who knows?”