BEAUMONT — A well-known Beaumont Police motorcycle officer was taken to the hospital following a Tuesday-morning collision.
A spokesperson for the police department said Officer Kolin Burmaster was going north on the Interstate 10 service road in the turn-around lane around 11:35 a.m. A vehicle left the Exxon gas station parking lot, crossed all lanes of traffic, into the path of Officer Burmaster’s motorcycle, causing the collision.
A Beaumont Police Department news release says Officer Burmaster was taken to the Hospital with, “serious but not life-threatening injuries.”
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The driver of the other vehicle was not injured in the collision.
Officer Burmaster has served as a Beaumont police officer since 1983.