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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Cop critical after crash
Officer Christopher Simone suffered an array of injuries shortly after 1 a.m. this morning when another driver slammed into his cruiser near Broad and Spring Garden streets. Simone, who works in the 9th District, was responding to an assist officer call at Hahnemann University Hospital, where a 49-year-old man was brandishing a box cutter and struggling with cops, said police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore.

The impact of the crash sent Simone's cruiser over a median, across the street and into an lightpole, Vanore said. The veteran cop was unconscious when medics arrived. He arrived at Hahnemann with broken ribs, a broken leg, head injuries and internal injuries as well. The driver and passenger of the other car suffered "non-life threatening injuries," Vanore said.

We'll be adding more on this later, of course.

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Dana DiFilippo has covered murder, mayhem and miscellany at the Daily News since 2000. She grew up in Delaware County and studied journalism and photography at Penn State University. E-mail tips to difilid@phillynews.com.

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Stephanie Farr has been reporting for the Daily News since 2007, covering everything from gay porn stars who entered the burglary business to moon trees, skinheads, murders and naked bike rides. She covers crime, both in the city and suburbs, and keeps clippings of bizarre Associated Press articles. Her favorite this year was the story about the drunk in Punxsutawney who gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dead opossum. E-mail tips to farrs@phillynews.com.

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Phillip Lucas joined the Daily News crime team in 2011. He grew up on the mean streets of Seattle and studied journalism and psychology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Before landing in the City of Brotherly Love, Phillip was a reporter for The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. Email tips to lucasp@phillynews.com.

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Morgan Zalot is the newest crime reporter at the Daily News, starting in 2011 after interning at the paper twice as a Temple University journalism student. In her past stints at the DN, she covered just about everything, from drunken Phillies fans to a barber shop in a high school to a grisly murder-suicide. She’s a born-and-raised Philly girl who grew up in the Northeast. E-mail tips to zalotm@philly.com.

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