In this Sept. 25, 2012, file photo, California Gov. Jerry Brown, front left, rides in a driverless car to a bill signing at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

(Bloomberg) — A Google Inc. driverless car was involved in the fleet’s first collision to result in injury.

“Everyone in both vehicles was okay, except for a bit of minor whiplash,” Chris Urmson, Google’s director for self-driving cars, wrote in a blog item posted Thursday. One of Google’s vehicles braked during a green light because of congestion, and the car behind hit it at 17 mph and lost its bumper, he wrote.

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