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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Since 1999, 43 percent of the officers that have died behind the wheel of the car have done so in single car collisions and this trend remains in 2011
Las Vegas police said the vehicle appeared to be driving itself
“Fugitive of the week” led police on a pursuit and struck an officer with his vehicle
Lisa Hernandez, a parolee injured two officers when she tried to ram her way out of arrest
Sheriff’s Deputy Sergio Aleman was driving the agency’s motorist assistance truck when the collision occurred
A mayor who was ticketed for illegally parking his Corvette ordered his own parking spot be put into the police lot
State prosecutors have said the troopers sought to conceal their involvement in the escort, which reached speeds exceeding 100 mph
Suspect had been convicted of DUI before in a separate case
Troopers allegedly involved in an unauthorized high-speed escort of luxury cars
The man provided the officer with his license and registration, then began acting suspiciously and reaching under the seat
The trooper warned the driver for operating a vehicle improperly equipped with emergency lights and a police siren
One of two burglary suspects got into a cruiser and drove away as police fired shots
When the driver got out of the vehicle, the officer recognized him as a fellow cop
Police killed a gunman who opened fire on officers responding to a home invasion
A stolen car being chased by Gulfport, Fla. police hit a bus, which then plowed into an apartment building
Millville Police Patrolman Christopher Reeves died Sunday morning when a suspect hit his cruiser, striking the driver’s side
A fire ignited in the trunk of an unmarked patrol car July 4
A high-speed pursuit of a vehicle linked to a shooting ended with an abrupt crash
As I sat outside the courtroom awaiting my turn to be questioned in front of the Grand Jury, a million things ran through my mind
The Benton County Sheriff was pulled over by a Bentonville police officer who asked him about an improper license plate
Two Massachusetts state police cruisers have been struck by other vehicles in separate overnight highway crashes
Man taken into custody broke out the patrol car window, climbed out and attacked
Police confronted a suspected shoplifter in the parking lot who refused to comply
Alderman Mark Payne, who made the motion to donate the patrol cars, said he thought it was the right thing to do for the two financially strapped towns
Allentown police arrested a woman who zapped a man in a pedestrian hit-and-run
Officer Fausto Lopez, who led a FHP trooper on a notorious chase, has been suspended
Cheraw officer would not take a field sobriety test or breathalyzer
Some patrol officers estimate that they take as many as a third of the city’s shooting victims to hospitals
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