MEMPHIS, Tenn. - An officer who crashed a police SUV into a parked car at an apartment complex in southeast Memphis on Tuesday afternoon was not headed to an emergency at the time, the department said.

The officer was not seriously injured.

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Memphis Police (MPD) said the crash happened just before 5 p.m. at the MAA Southwind apartments on Cart Path Lane. Investigators arrived to find that an officer was in an MPD vehicle when it lost control, struck two curbs and a tree before crashing into a parked car in the parking lot of the apartment complex, police said.

Police said the officer was "was not en route to a vehicle call and was not in emergency." The officer's body-worn camera also was not on at the time of the

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