A Boston police cruiser was involved in a car crash the occurred near the scene of a shooting in Dorchester overnight, though it's unclear if the incidents were.
The other driver, a 66-year-old Medway woman who had been driving a Suburu SUV, was also taken to the hospital as a precaution, police said.
Five minutes later, at 12:49 p.m., another trooper was involved in a two-vehicle crash on Furnace Brook Parkway in Quincy, state police said.
In that crash, authorities said the trooper was behind the wheel of a marked police cruiser that crashed with a Honda Civic driven by an 86-year-old Quincy woman.
Both the trooper and woman were taken to area hospitals for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.
The cause of both crashes remain under investigation.