A commander with the San Antonio Park Police Department has been placed on administrative leave after he was accused last month of crashing into a vehicle on the Northeast Side and then fleeing the scene.

Lt. Timothy Packard is district commander for park police and a 39-year veteran of the department, city records show.

He is accused of swerving into a vehicle on Aug. 18 in the 4500 block of Walzem Road and then leaving the scene without exchanging information with the other driver.

Packard was driving a city vehicle at the time of the crash, a San Antonio Police Department incident report shows.

The other vehicle, which contained four people, pulled over after the collision.

One of the occupants complained of minor pain in her upper body, according to an SAPD incident report.

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