Officers suffer minor injuries Wednesday evening when squad cars collided with vehicles on Far South Side

Officers responded to a call of shots fired Wednesday evening were involved in a collision with a SUV on the Far South Side in the West Pullman neighborhood, Chicago police said.

Shortly before 7:30 p.m., officers in a squad car with the sirens activated responded to a call of shots fired. As the squad car entered an intersection in the 500 block of West 107th Street it collided with a black SUV with two occupants, police said.

The occupants, a 32-year-old man and a woman, 31, fled the scene on foot, but were taken into custody a short distance from the scene, police said. Two officers were taken to an area hospital for minor injuries and both were listed in good condition, police said. The occupants of the SUV refused medical help. Citations are pending, and the Major Accident Investigation Unit was investigating.

About the same time as the West Pullman accident, another collision involving a squad car happened in the Roseland neighborhood, police said.

Shortly after 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, officers with the squad car’s sirens activated were responding to a call to assist another officer were headed north in the 11500 block of South State Street when a collision happened in the intersection with a SUV headed east, police said.

The driver of the SUV, an 88-year-old man, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn for an evaluation. A passenger of the SUV, a 32-year-old man, also was taken to the same hospital where he was listed in good condition. An officer suffered minor injuries and was taken to a local hospital in good condition, police said.

Police said no citations will be issued at this time, and detectives were investigating.