An on-duty Huntington Beach police officer driving a patrol SUV was in a traffic collision with another car on Sunday night, March 23, authorities said.

The crash occurred about 10:15 p.m. at Beach Boulevard and Williams Drive, police spokeswoman Jessica Cuchilla said.

The conditions of the officer and the occupants of the second car were unclear. The California Highway Patrol was investigating the crash, Cuchilla said.

Video from OnScene TV, a freelance news organization that sometimes works with the Southern California News Group, shows the police black-and-white with front-end damage and a dark-colored Kia sedan with major passenger-side damage.

At least one person, a man, was loaded into an ambulance, the video shows. A Metro Cities dispatch supervisor told City News Service that six people were taken to hospitals, but the extent of their injuries was not known.

Whether the officer was responding to a call, or had lights and siren on at the time of the crash, was not known.

Sunday’s crash was the second injury collision involving a Huntington Beach police vehicle in less than a month.

A man riding an electric scooter was hospitalized on Feb. 26 after he was struck by a police cruiser near Beach and Heil Avenue.

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