PGW worker hurt trying to stop unattended police car

A Philadelphia Gas Works employee was injured trying to stop a moving unattended police vehicle Wednesday afternoon in West Philadelphia.

Police said the incident happened just before 4:30 p.m., after an officer on patrol attempted to make a routine traffic stop at Markoe Street and Westminster Avenue. The driver of the suspect vehicle, however, made a hard turn and crashed, and the occupants ran from the scene, police said.

The officer exited the police car, but left it in neutral, police said. The police car began rolling backward, and a PGW worker attempted to enter the police car but became wedged underneath it. The car rolled over his legs, police said.

Medics took the man to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. His condition was not immediately available. The officer was not injured.