Impaired driver arrested after crashing into B.C. police vehicle [Video]

Mounties say a suspected impaired driver was arrested over the weekend after crashing his SUV into an unmarked police vehicle on Vancouver Island.

The Nanaimo RCMP say a traffic enforcement officer was behind the wheel of the unmarked police car and narrowly avoided serious injury after the SUV crashed into the back of his vehicle and then flipped onto its roof in the middle of the roadway.

The collision happened around 4 p.m. Saturday on Hammond Bay Road near Williamson Road, closing the area to traffic for several hours, according to police.

Neither the officer nor the suspect driver sustained any injuries, police said.

The Nanaimo RCMP say the officer involved in the collision had stopped another vehicle on the roadside for an excessive speeding investigation.

“The officer said that his emergency lights were fully activated,” the local RCMP detachment said in a news release Monday. “While sitting in his …