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.
The data underscores a growing problem of people driving with drugs in their systems
Law enforcement agencies in Texas are determined to keep tragedies from striking this year
Patrick Sirois was assisting driver when a passing car clipped the trailer, pinning him against guardrail
9-year veteran Officer Jason Marles was headed home after working a holiday anti-drunken driving detail
The pursuit at times exceeded 100 miles per hour before stop sticks were deployed
The WatchGuard 4RE HD Wireless In-Car Video System uses multiple Texas Instruments’ DiVinci DM365 video processors to offer high definition in-car video
OTM is a delightful little acronym for illegal immigrants who are ‘Other Than Mexican’ — SIA stands for ‘Special Interest Aliens’ from terrorist nations like Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen
Officer Bob, the mannequin, improves safety because it causes drivers to pause or at least slow down at stop signs
Trooper Jonathan McDonald is survived by his wife and a six-month-old daughter
Police chief says the officers were lucky, and that if they were standing in between the vehicles, the scenario could have been much worse
Study after study proves that we notice much less of our visual world than we think we do; how does this inattentional blindness impact police officers?
Will this make the roads more dangerous?
Drug incidents jump 75% and mixing ingredients can lead to explosions
Safety Department officers are patrolling I-75 watching for vehicles traveling too closely to commercial trucks and trucks tailing vehicles
They drove part of the time in oncoming traffic and nearly hit a school bus
Police say 15 children, ranging from 15 months to 15 years, have been left unattended in vehicles by their adult caretakers since June 2010
Deputy Sheriff Dean Miera survived by his wife, four children, and two grandchildren
Man had warrants for aggravated assault, felony evading arrest, reckless endangerment, possession of stolen property and motor vehicle theft
The officer was in pursuit of a vehicle “engaged in suspicious activity” on Sunday when he lost control of his cruiser and crashed into the vacant house
A CHP officer attempted to push one vehicle with his squad car away from a fully-engulfed vehicle, but was unable to move it
Was using her cell phone to send and receive text messages just before she lost control
Cop graduated from police academy just seven weeks earlier
Captain Green had served with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol for 31 years and was six months shy of retirement
Deputy Odell McDuffie is survived by his wife and three daughters
He had saved the life of a choking man before his police cruiser slammed into a telephone pole
The deputy lit a cigarette in one of the department’s environmentally friendly propane-hybrid cruisers
The bus driver and 18 high school students were taken to hospitals after the hit-and-run crash occured Monday
The 17-year-veteran is survived by his wife and son