There was a serious accident Monday evening involving a Calgary police cruiser and a passenger vehicle on Macleod Trail and 12th Avenue SE near Stampede Park.

It happened around 6:30 p.m.

The impact of the crash appears to have torn off one of the police car’s rear passenger doors and merged it with the damage to the front of the second car.

There was a serious accident Monday evening involving a Calgary police cruiser and a passenger vehicle on Macleod Trail and 12th Avenue SE near Stampede Park.

Two officers from the patrol car and the occupants of the other car were taken to hospital. Their lives are not in danger.

Traffic on Macleod Trail and surrounding streets has been slowed or closed.

The traffic unit is investigating what happened.