WASHINGTON - A D.C. Police SUV was involved in a wreck at the filming of "Transformers 3" in Washington D.C.

While the movie was filming a car chase scene on 3rd Street and Maryland Ave in southwest D.C., the police SUV collides with a yellow Chevy Camaro, which in the movie series is known as the character Bumblebee.

The police SUV was not supposed to be there and the wreck itself was not scripted.

The police officer driving the SUV is a 25-year veteran senior explosive ordinance technician. He was taken to a local hospital and sustained minor injuries.

Law enforcement sources tell FOX 5 that he was driving to a call for a suspicious package incident nearby and was using a different radio channel than the police officers who were securing the perimeter for the movie.

------------------------------------------------------------------Statement from the Metropolitan Police Department:

"Earlier today, a MPD marked cruiser responding to an emergency assignment, collided with a vehicle involved in the filming of a movie at Third Street and Maryland Avenue, SW. The officer sustained minor injuries and was transported to a local hospital. No civilian injuries have been reported.

The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the facts of the crash and filming of this movie on closed DC city streets has been suspended until safety procedures can be reviewed."

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If they don't tear up vehicles in downtown D.C. from accidents like this one, they certainly will from doing chase scenes on D.C.'s miserable, torn-up, potholed streets. That's a lot of stress on the chassis/suspension/wheels. I myself stay out of D.C. proper as much as possible.

 

maybe they can use that scene as part of the movie

 

Unless they zoom in really, really close to the collision
and make a nuclear bomb explosion occur after impact...
Michael Bay will leave it out

 

Make it part of the script! And right when the two cars collide, throw some cgi/effects in it to make the cop car transform into a Decepticon an start to battle with bumblebee! lol. Come on Bay! Where your imagination????

Glad the driver/s were all ok tho.

 

I saw a video of it in the news this morning.

Someone didn't get a memo about the closed set...

 

Thats not bumblebee, if that was bumblebee the police car would of been torn to shreds!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJm1w...ayer_embedded#!

lol this sucks...

 

dang. bumblebee got rocked.

 

errr...... why bother covering it up, so many people saw it already @_@

 

It's very unspectacular compared to the endless special effects usually found in a Transformer movie ...

 

lol maybe it gives michael some new ideas

 

after the accident, Bee was taken to a repair facility... in mexico.

the autobots found him like this...

 

My cousin's boyfriend, who works for the DCMPD and was on set working crowd control/perimeter security, was one of the first responders to attend to the injured officer. Unbelievably, he says that the officer involved had no earthly idea that he was on a closed set/street. They are all pretty much dumbfounded as to how he got onto those streets...

BumbleBee(s) Pre-Crash...