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.
I propose to you that there is a difference between a full-time K-9 officer and a full-time interdiction officer who happens to be a certified dog handler
Improved driver training would be better, but improved safety devices can help
Formed in a small office in Los Angeles, in 2006 Carbon Motors began morphing from an interesting idea into a tangible reality when they moved to Atlanta and began pursuing investors
The motorist yelled about the suspect’s erratic driving, prompting him to follow the motorist home, driving up on his lawn to run him over
An Iowa cop was attempting to make a traffic stop because the motorist had driven through a stop sign
Richard Wilson was providing an escort for a motorcade and had his lights flashing and siren on when an SUV apparently did not see him
71-year- old Kalyanarat Ranasinghe was declared dead at the scene when he was struck by a vacuum truck
The trooper and one firefighter were treated and released but the fire chief remains hospitalized
Deputies found a Porsche Carrera GT engulfed in flames when they responded to a report of a collision Saturday
Deputy Joseph Antwine, 23, passed away Friday after he was involved in a single vehicle crash a week earlier
31-year-old Brian Christopher Leggitt backed his car into the officer’s cruiser and tried hitting the officer
Scott Krissinger, a 6-year-veteran, raced to the flaming truck and pulled the driver to safety, then checked for more victims
For police and sheriff’s departments, which have scooped up 165 of the mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, the deal was too good to pass up
New York has given state police 32 tall, unmarked SUVs to better peer down at drivers’ hands
People were in the home but there were no injuries
The trooper was responding to a call about an accident in which another officer’s wife was involved
Heath Moss, 33, is charged with two counts of criminally negligent homicide for the fatal 2011 crash
Carbon Motors received permission last week from a federal bankruptcy court to put its high-tech car up for auction
Officers can turn off their cars rather than idling, saving gas and their battery, as a second solar powered battery powers the radio and laptop
The civilian who prompted the cop to race posted the video to YouTube where it quickly got attention
The wounded victim lunged at police as they tended to her injuries
An officer happened to be in the right place when the girl, 7, was hit by a car, and performed CPR
Police were found justified in the fatal shooting of a teen who had stolen his father’s truck
Detective Alexander and the driver both were not seriously injured
What police assumed was a vandal turned out to be a ghostly dust storm
The man, 19, drove in reverse, crashing into a cruiser, and recklessly drove backwards through bike lanes
A car crashed into a cruiser conducting a traffic stop, setting of a chain reaction of crashes
The woman crashed into another vehicle, then continued fleeing at high speeds, all with her children in the back seats
