A automobile carrying Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s safety staff flipped and rolled down an embankment on Thursday, with 4 officers taken to hospital with non-life-threatening accidents.
Their automobile overturned after an accident with one other automobile whereas the prime minister was on the marketing campaign path in Tasmania forward of Might 21 elections, the state’s police mentioned in a press release.
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Morrison cancelled his remaining stops of the day after the accident however he was not concerned or injured within the crash, his workplace mentioned.
The prime minister described the officers who defend him and his household as “selfless, skilled and extremely beneficiant.”
“I hope to listen to additional excellent news about their situation,” he mentioned in a press release.
Whereas the automobile the officers had been travelling in was badly broken, the safety element’s accidents had been “non-life-threatening,” police mentioned.
Morrison’s workplace mentioned all 4 officers had been acutely aware after they had been transferred from the crash web site.
Native police mentioned they had been nonetheless investigating the crash nevertheless it appeared the opposite automobile had collided with the unmarked police automobile whereas attempting to merge lanes.
It isn’t clear whether or not the safety automobile was following the prime minister’s automobile when the crash occurred.
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