A hit-and-run driver struck a detective in Brooklyn on Tuesday, led cops on a 4-mile chase and then slammed into another car — injuring an off-duty NYPD sergeant and her 14-year-old daughter, who is in critical condition, police sources said.
The off-duty cop and her daughter were trapped inside the wreckage and had to be extricated with hydraulic tools.
“They were all very bad. They were hurt,” said witness Randi Raymond, 55.
The unidentified driver “looked panicked” as he tried to run away from the second crash scene on Avenue U near Stuart Street — but was quickly caught and arrested, a witness said.
“It was chaos, pure chaos,” said the witness.
The incident began around 2:50 p.m. at East 42nd Street and Farragut Road in East Flatbush, cops said.
Detectives from the Brooklyn Robbery Squad were staking out a van that fit the description of a suspect vehicle when two men came out of a nearby pharmacy and got into the vehicle, sources said.
Cops tried to stop the van when the driver took off and ran over one detective’s foot, sources said.
The van then sped away, and was racing along Avenue U when it veered into oncoming traffic, clipped a Nissan and tore off its rear bumper — with the impact sending both vehicles hurtling across the street and onto the sidewalk, cops said.
A search was underway for the two van passengers.
Additional reporting by Dana Sauchelli
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