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A Pembroke Pines police officer was hospitalized early Saturday after a driver crashed through the front gates of a school before striking the officer's car and running off the road and ending up upside down.

The wild sequence began just before 1 a.m. when the driver of a beige SUV, 24-year-old Emilio Espinoza-Rojas, drove through a stop sign at Northwest 184th Avenue and Pembroke Road and crashed through the closed front gates at Pines Charter West School at 18500 Pembroke Road, Pembroke Pines Police said.