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At least nine Baltimore police officers have sought medical treatment for injuries they sustained while on duty during the first six weeks of 2026.
Seven officers were involved in collisions involving their patrol vehicles across the city. One officer was hospitalized for smoke inhalation after he ran into a house that was on fire to save people in southwest Baltimore. Another officer was dragged by a suspect’s car during a traffic stop.
The list of incidents includes high-impact collisions that set off airbags—and, in one case, overturned a patrol car—an act of heroism, and survival during a harrowing encounter with a fleeing suspect.
On Jan. 5, an officer was injured after his patrol vehicle collided with a Nissan while traveling through the intersection of Dudley Avenue and Mannasota Avenue in east Baltimore, according to authorities.
Police said the impact of the collision was strong enough to overturn the officer’s vehicle.
Two days later, an officer was hospitalized following a house fire in Baltimore’s Carrollton Ridge neighborhood, according to authorities. A civilian was taken to the hospital, too.
The Baltimore Police Department made public in a social media post the body-camera footage of the officers who rushed into a burning house in Carrollton Ridge on Jan. 7. The footage showed an officer trying to convey to an elderly woman in an upstairs bedroom that she needed to exit the house immediately. When she couldn’t move quickly, two officers picked her up by the arms and legs and carried her down the stairs.
LISTEN | Police run into burning house to save residents of Carrollton Ridge
Later that night, another officer was injured while conducting a traffic stop in downtown Baltimore. The officer noticed that the man behind the wheel of the car, later identified as 29-year-old Marquise Wells, was armed. The officer told Wells that he would reach into the car to disarm him. That’s when Wells sped off, dragging the officer down the street, according to authorities.
The officer fired at least one round at that point, which struck the driver. Then, the officer fell to the ground as the vehicle fled, police said.
Following the shooting, several officers could be seen near the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center guarding a white car that matched the description of the suspect vehicle. Sources confirmed to FOX45 that the car was wanted in connection to the shooting.
On Jan. 8, a Baltimore police officer and a 54-year-old man were injured when a patrol vehicle collided with a civilian’s vehicle at the intersection of Mulberry Street and Schroeder Street.
Two weeks later, two officers were hospitalized following a collision involving a light pole at the intersection of West Pratt Street at South Fulton Avenue. Officers were responding to a Shotspotter alert at the time.
The impact of the crash triggered the air bag deployment mechanism on both patrol vehicles.
Both officers were taken to a nearby hospital out of precaution, according to authorities.
The same tow truck driver removed both vehicles. He encountered some difficulties when he returned for the second one because it was wedged onto the fallen light pole. He and an officer worked to separate the two. Soon after, a telephone pole near the crash site caught fire.
Then, on Jan. 28, an officer was driving southbound in the 200 block of Cherry Hill Road with his patrol lights and sirens on when he collided with a civilian vehicle. Police said that vehicle had been traveling southbound ahead of the officer and attempted to make a left turn onto Seagull Road. The officer tried to go around it, which is when the collision happened.
The driver of the civilian vehicle was not injured, but the officer was transported to a local hospital with injuries, police said.
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The list of damage done includes two separate collisions involving patrol vehicles that required officers to be taken to local hospitals on Feb. 6. One of them happened at the intersection of Biddle Street and Central Avenue around 12:30 p.m. Police said the officer and the driver of the other vehicle, a 58-year-old man, were taken to local hospitals to receive treatment for their injuries.
Later that night, around 10:20 p.m., an officer was injured when his patrol vehicle collided with a civilian car near the intersection of Harford Road and East North Avenue.
Both the officer and civilian motorist were transported to area hospitals with injuries that did not threaten their lives, according to authorities.
LISTEN | Police react to a collision involving a patrol car in east Baltimore
The officer could be seen limping alongside a medic following the collision.
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