Vehicle Incidents and Issues
The Vehicle Incidents and Issues topic deals with issues related to specialized patrols like motorcycle units as well as vehicular risks and challenges to LE, including vehicle crashes involving police and vehicular assaults against officers.
Some of the most innovative designs in auto engineering are in the mundane features we don’t typically think about
Agreement approved Tuesday prevents police agencies from prolonging traffic stops or jailing people to determine their immigration status
A Miami-Dade police officer who failed a roadside sobriety test repeatedly asked a Florida Highway Patrol trooper to look the other way
Department has a fleet of 202 vehicles. Among those patrol cars, 23 were purchased in the past three years. The other 75 are older, some dating back to 1997
Utah trooper was inside his patrol car finishing the paperwork on a traffic stop, when a massive truck slammed into the side of his vehicle
The officer was able to jump onto the SUV’s running boards and rode it until he was able to free himself from the car door
The cop was shoved off the vehicle then run over as the driver escaped
At issue is whether the actions of the police shooting at the vehicle as it attempted to escape constituted excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment
Civil liberty advocates have raised concerns about the proposed law’s constitutionality
The StarChase system is a James Bond-worthy device that shoots a canister out the front of the police car and sticks a tracking device on the back of a fleeing vehicle
Rabbi confronted a woman driving in a school zone. Authorities say he acknowledged that he held up a fake badge while yelling
Police still aren’t sure why a woman fled a traffic stop at speeds reaching 90 mph before losing control of her vehicle
Confusion about American traffic laws set off a high-speed pursuit in southern Utah
“It’s certainly going to be a black eye for King City,” County Supervisor Simon Salinas said
On March 3, police will leave it up to drivers in minor accidents to do the right thing
A pursuit through residential streets resulted in a dramatic collision, injuring two sheriff’s deputies. A third officer was also injured
Chief and two officers were removed from duty after being arrested on suspicion of selling or giving away impounded cars of poor residents
The SFPD Honda unit gives the course on how to patrol areas that are inaccessible to police vehicles
While the officer was standing in the road at the crash scene, he saw a pickup that was sliding on the ice coming at him
Las Vegas police were hoping Monday that distributing a security video of a car striking a man in the parking lot of a convenience store would lead to an arrest
A retired Texas officer died and his wife, a current officer, was critically injured when a teen who was allegedly driving drunk hit their motorcycle
Nokian retractable stud tires offer promise for law-enforcement use
After learning four passengers escaped and one man was still trapped inside a burning car, an officer ran to the car to pull the man to safety
Other driver entered a intersection despite a red light and was struck on the side by a cruiser that was responding to a middle-of-the-night robbery call
Authorities captured two men shortly after they allegedly broke into an Minn. home, severely beat a man inside, and fled in a red Cadillac