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.
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Investigators found two pistols, two rifles, 48 explosive devices and tools and materials to make additional explosives
A manhunt for the shooter is still underway
The teen had failed to stop at a checkpoint
The goat turned his attention to police, going after them and trying to get inside their police cars
The officers were injured when an SUV collided with their squad car
One officer suffered injuries to his knee and wrist after a drunk woman hit his squad head-on
Haamid Ade Zaid, of San Jose, has been charged with two counts of attempted murder, four counts of assault with a deadly weapon
The $650,000 vehicle was gifted to the Salinas Police Department from the government through the 1033 program
A woman fled from a Walmart and hit another car head-on, a child was in the vehicle
Trooper Adeline Roybal was struck by a van whose driver failed to heed to emergency lights
Officer Jeffrey Hugh Bryant, 51, was killed when a vehicle hit his patrol car head-on
Kevin Shymel Gibbs tried repeatedyly ramming Officer Daniel Stuckey with his car
Deputy Sheriff Clinton Frazier, 36, drove into an embankment and rolled his vehicle
The suspect nearly hit a police officer, who lost site of the suspect but caught up after the truckers followed the vehicle
The sheriff’s deputy involved in the crash sustained moderate injuries
Joshua Beesley, 40, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer and felony evading
Adam Davis, 36, was responding to reports of a man displaying a gun in public when he rolled his squad
Caroline Walker, 21, suffered a concussion and told reporters she was very sore, but thankfully had no broken bones
Of the 733 law enforcement officers killed in a vehicle accident from 1980 through 2008, 42 percent weren’t wearing seatbelts
The impact smashed the patrol car’s windshield, leaving the deputy with cuts on his arm and glass in his eyes
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