Oklahoma Police officer injured, taken to hospital, Alan Woodard uninjured, after a patrol car, with sirens activated, collides with a pickup at an intersection in northwest Oklahoma City.

A police officer driving a patrol car with lights and sirens on struck a pickup in a northwest Oklahoma City intersection Thursday.

The officer was taken by ambulance to a hospital, but the pickup driver was not hurt, said police Sgt. Jennifer Wardlow. The name of the officer was not released. She said his injuries were not life-threatening.

About 7:25 a.m. the officer was eastbound on NW 36 when he went through a red light at the Interstate 44 Service Road intersection with NW 36, said a witness The witness was westbound on NW 36 and stopped at the light.

She said she saw a red pickup driven north by Alan Woodard. Woodard had a green light, she said. She said she could hear the police car’s sirens and see the lights before it struck the pickup.

However, she said she thinks the I-44 bridge wall and signs prevented Woodard from seeing the oncoming police car.

Woodard, who was returning from buying guttering supplies, said it was not until he was in the intersection that he heard sirens and saw the patrol car lights as it struck his pickup.

“I looked to my left and I saw him as he hit me,” Woodard said.