GOODING -- Gooding County Deputy Alex Boyer wound up in the hospital after a pickup truck smashed into his patrol car Tuesday morning.

It happened just after 7 a.m. on Shoestring Road south of Gooding.  The 27-year-old deputy was in his patrol car responding to a burglary when a man driving a pickup truck hit the car, pinning the deputy in the wreckage.

Sheriff Shaun Gough said Boyer had his lights and siren on and one vehicle coming the other direction yielded to the officer, but another car right behind him did not see the police car coming at him.

Deputies say the driver of the pickup sped away from the scene, but police caught up with him and arrested him on a felony charge of leaving the scene of an injury crash.

Leo Poldo Malaquias Mendez-Mendez, 45, was booked into the Gooding County Jail.

Gough said alcohol was not a factor in this accident.  

Boyer's patrol car struck a power pole squarely on the driver's side. He had to be extricated and was taken to St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise.

Gough says Boyer is undergoing surgery this afternoon. He suffered numerous broken bones, but his injuries are not life-threatening.