Sask. RCMP officer hit by vehicle during traffic stop, suspect later taken into custody

An RCMP officer suffered serious injuries after being struck by a vehicle during a traffic stop near North Battleford.
On Monday around 8:40 a.m., the RCMP member stopped a 2018 Ford F350 with an Alberta license plate along Highway 40 near the village of Richard, approximately 30 kilometres east of North Battleford. According to RCMP in a news release, a man started to flee the scene in the vehicle before he “turned around and tried to run the member down who was still outside of the polic