A TEENAGER has been charged with stealing a car and driving it while drunk following a road smash involving a police car that left an officer needing hospital treatment.

A TEENAGER has been charged with stealing a car and driving it while drunk following a road smash involving a police car that left an officer needing hospital treatment.

The accident, which left the police car written off, happened at around 3.15am yesterday in Felixstowe Road, Ipswich near to the turn off to Nacton.

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