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.
Trooper Brian Salyer was treated for traumatic head injuries and a laceration to an artery in his neck before being released from hospital
Struck-by incidents are the second leading cause of accidental deaths to law enforcement
At mid-year 2010, LEO deaths are up considerably compared last year
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
Demonstrators in the crisis prevented garbage trucks from unloading at the local dump for days
Is being detained at the Department of Juvenile Justice for stealing two cars in one week
Four firefighters were injured when the his patrol car crashed into the stationary truck
The city’s police chief says there is “no written protocol telling officers what to do after they’ve been run down by a car”
There are conflicting accounts of how the football player died driving away from the scene of a fight outside a bar
The officer knocked on the window, the car accelerated and the cop wound up on the hood of the vehicle
The officer was following an ambulance to an emergency call
Driver was arrested and charged with intoxicated manslaughter
Last month, a woman was hit in the head by a piece of flying metal during the shooting of the movie in northwest Indiana
The woman has twice been sentenced to jail for drunken driving convictions, the last time in 1998
Officer Merrill Bruguier is survived by his wife and his son
Morning commuters ran into the street and grabbed at the flying money
The injured cop was dragged across two lanes of traffic by a driver of a stolen van
City officers are now prohibited from chasing fleeing suspects for minor traffic infractions
Officer Will Phillips is survived by his wife and two young sons
Driver of the fleeing car lost control and slid into an oncoming cruiser
The insurance industry says texting while driving laws have had no immediate effect
Some say Heselden was testing a new cross-country version of the Segway, while others say he was riding the Segway as he checked his estate
