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Nationals manager in hit-and-run while live on radio

This isn’t the hit-and-run Matt Williams had in mind.

On Wednesday morning, the Nationals manager was conducting a radio interview while driving to Nationals Park before a day game against the Dodgers when he was rear-ended — and narrated the events live on the air.

“Sorry guys, I just had an accident,” Williams said on 106.7 The Fan. “I’ve got a police officer behind me. This guy’s gonna try to escape. The guy’s running. He just ran right into the back of me. I just got rear-ended by a guy in a car. Hold on. This guy’s crashing into people.”

The hosts asked Williams if he was OK, and the first-year manager said he was fine.

“Yeah. I’m good,” Williams said. “There was a police car behind me and a guy in a car and he tried to get by me and he just smoked me. I’m almost to the ballpark. He tried to get out of his car and then he got around me [in his car] and now they’re chasing him.”

Williams escaped bodily harm, but the same could not be said about his Chevy Tahoe.

“My rear end is gone now,” he said. “The cops are gone, they’re chasing him. That’s the strangest thing I’ve ever been a part of right there. The guy behind me was trying to get out of his car, they had him wedged in. And then he got around me, he hit another car going by him. … We’ve got a helicopter overhead right now. Unbelievable. That’s unbelievable.”

Williams’ mishap is just the latest in a series of odd events that have taken place while Washington sports figures were on the air with 106.7 The Fan. Four years ago, then-Redskins tight end Chris Cooley was pulled over for drifting out of his lane while making a turn, but was not ticketed. Clinton Portis did not get off scot-free in his brush with the law, ticketed for speeding last year while calling in to a radio show hosted by former teammate Fred Smoot.