ATLANTA - Officials say an Atlanta police officer is recovering after he was injured helping a stranded driver on Saturday morning.
The officer stopped on Interstate 20 near Martin Luther King Drive just before 5 a.m.
Another driver rear-ended the officer's patrol car.
The collision caused the patrol car to strike the stranded car, officials said, and injured both the officer and the stranded driver.
Both were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injures.
FOX 5 Atlanta is working to get an update on their conditions.
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