MIAMI - A MAN trying to flee from Florida sheriff's deputies phoned his mother for help and she obligingly rushed to the scene and rammed two lawmen with her sports utility vehicle, deputies said.

Mother and son were arrested after the confrontation on Wednesday night in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Pompano Beach, Florida, the Broward County sheriff's office said on Thursday.

Detectives said they tried to stop Joe Morgan, 25, on a traffic offence but he fled, phoning his mother as he drove away. They said Morgan got caught in a traffic jam and that as the deputies surrounded him and tried to remove him from his vehicle, his mother, Carman Thompson-Wilson, arrived and hit the two deputies with her SUV.

The two injured deputies were treated at a medical centre and released.

Thompson-Wilson, 42, was charged with two counts of aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer. Her son was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, obstructing with violence and fleeing from law enforcement. -- REUTERS