A Niagara Regional Police cruiser sustained around four thousand dollars in damage following an accident with a tractor.

It happened just after nine o'clock last night when a police vehicle was on routine patrol on York Road west of Queenston Road in Niagara on the Lake, when the cruiser rear ended the tractor.

The driver of the tractor suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital where he was treated and released.

The operator of the tractor was charged with improper lights on a farm vehicle.