Langley RCMP officers forced to leap out of the way as driver rams into police car

LANGLEY — Two RCMP officers in Langley had to jump out of the way as a man deliberately used the vehicle he was driving “as a weapon” to ram their cruiser and escape.

A statement from police says it happened at around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday (Dec. 24) when the officers responded to a suspicious vehicle on Willowbrook Drive.

Police say the officers found the driver slumped over the wheel, but he suddenly regained consciousness and drove the vehicle into a cruiser, before leaving at a “high rate of speed.”

The statement says the two officers had to quickly move out of the way, and that they later found that the vehicle’s licence plates were stolen and had been switched from another car.