'I need some help': Officer trapped in overturned RPD cruiser taken to hospital after crash

Police are investigating a major crash involving an overturned Raleigh Police Department cruiser near New Bern Avenue.

Monday morning at 4:19 a.m., the Raleigh Police Department responded to an officer needing assistance call at North Carver Street and Pender Street.

It appears that a RPD cruiser and another car crashed into one another, knocking down a power pole. Both drivers were transported to the hospital.

Radio traffic revealed a 45-year-old police officer was trapped in a vehicle, complaining of back pain, side pain and head pain.

The crash happened in a Raleigh neighborhood near Fisher Street Park. The intersection of North Carver Street and Pender Street was closed for hours while the crash was being investigated. Duke Energy was also working to repair the broken power pole.

A man named Macrus Avery was arrested at the scene. He was a passenger of one of the involved vehicles, and arrest records say he failed to "give information or aid at the scene of a collision."