Suspected drunken driver rear-ends Detroit police car while on traffic stop

A Detroit police vehicle was involved in a crash Oct. 13, 2017 on Joy Road near the Southfield Freeway. (WDIV)

DETROIT – A suspected drunken driver rear-ended a Detroit police car that was on a traffic stop just before 3 a.m. Friday on the city's west side.

Police were on a traffic stop on Joy Road just east of the Southfield Freeway when, according to sources, a woman in her mid-20s rear-ended the cop car.

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She has been detained and will have her blood alcohol content tested. 

No one was injured in the crash. 

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