Girl Hit by Police Cruiser

A 9 year old girl, Nyelah Branham, remains hospitalized with a broken pelvis and brain contusion after being struck by a a DC police cruiser the night before Thanksgiving day.

The accident happened in the fifteen hundred block of 6Th street, Northwest.

Some insiders in the Police department (and probably no friends of the Chief) are suggesting a special investigation is in order because of who was behind the wheel and that persons special relationship to Police Chief Cathy Lanier.

Police spokesperson Traci Hughes confirms for me that Sergeant James Shaeffer was at the wheel of the vehicle. He was traveling within the speed limit says Hughes and he wasn't cited on the scene for any driving infractions.

Shaeffer is ...according to sources... the Chief's main squeeze. Hughes knocked down rumor that Chief Lanier may have been on the scene during the accident. She wasn't, said Hughes.