A FAIRFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT patrol car had to be hauled from the scene Thursday when it was involved in a 2-vehicle wreck on E. Commerce Street. A Fairfield Police Department patrol car sustained extensive front end damage last week, partly as a result of a tractor trailer rig with a wide load that had parked and was blocking traffic on E. Commerce Street.

The wreck, involving the police car and a sports utility vehicle, occurred at 9:28 a.m. Thursday near the intersection of E. Commerce and Cotton streets.

Department of Public Safety Trooper Michael Adams reports that a truck hauling a piece of equipment parked along the north side of E. Commerce when a block steadying the load came loose.

The driver of the truck owned by Turner Transfer of Greensboro, N.C., David Carrick, 35, stopped to secure the load, but when he parked the truck it partly blocked the outer westbound lane of traffic, Adams says.

Two escort vehicles stopped nearby but were not in position to divert traffic around the truck, the trooper says.

Fairfield Patrolman Harold Markham, 27, was westbound on E. Commerce and was surveying the traffic situation when a Acura SUV driven by Carolyn Williams, 57, of Fairfield stopped as a car in front of her was turning, the trooper explains.

Markham’s patrol unit struck the back of the Williams vehicle.

No injuries were sustained in the wreck and no traffic citations have been issued.