The Dispatch
Two Denton Police officers were struck Monday afternoon by another vehicle while they were sitting in their patrol car along Business 85 South completing the paperwork for a traffic citation, according to the N.C. Highway Patrol.
The officers, Cpl. J. Allen and Cpl. R. Basinger, received non-life-threatening injuries and were transported for treatment to Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center, said Master Trooper Ned Moultrie. Denton Police Chief M. Hicks said Monday night that Allen and Basinger have been released from the hospital.
The accident occurred at 1:03 p.m.
According to the report, the officers had stopped at 2017 Nissan driven by Tokunba Anumuda of High Point for allegedly speeding. The officers were seated in their patrol vehicle behind Anumuda s Nissan writing the citation when a 2016 Freightliner van driven by James Thurmond Miller of Wards, South Carolina, struck the rear of the Denton patrol car, pushing it forward into the rear of Anumuda s N