Halifax Regional Police say an officer shot at a car fleeing a traffic stop, and then later police pulled over the wrong suspect vehicle.

Police said at around 7 p.m. Wednesday two officers were outside of their vehicle on Main Avenue when they spotted a car driving erratically.

The officers waved down the vehicle and it stopped, police said. But then the vehicle suddenly accelerated towards one of the officers when they approached.

In an attempt to stop the vehicle, police said the officer took out their gun and shot twice into the side of the vehicle.

The vehicle managed to get away and the officer was not physically injured.

A short time later, police said they believed they had found the fleeing vehicle in a parking lot at the corner of Joseph Howe Drive and Dutch Village Road.

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