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.
Here are two opposing views that are meant to inform and educate all parties about conflict during traffic stops
Your first mission is to ensure you are always aware of your surroundings – even when you are at your own house
Evan’s Law would require drivers to give police their cell phones and enable officers to use textalyzer technology at auto accident scenes
No matter how many subjects you arrest or pursue, there will always be another
When officials refused to cover the tolls, the State Troopers Fraternal Association filed a grievance that claimed division had violated collective bargaining agreement
The officer is survived by his wife and three kids
According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, the majority (seven of 10) vehicle accident deaths thus far in 2017 were single-vehicle collisions — this must end
Prime Minister Stefan Lofven told a crowd outside Stockholm City Hall that “the whole of Sweden” sympathized with the families and friends of the victims
A legislator says he believes his bill requiring North Carolina driver’s ed materials to direct motorists how to act during police stops would save lives if enacted
Other officers pulled Nick Rodman from his burning vehicle and took him directly to the hospital Tuesday evening
The boy, Nathan Snow, was driving his miniature F-150 home from the playground when an RCMP officer flashed his lights
A chief said the high call volume of heroin overdoses is taking up the majority of responders’ time
Gary Breitling, 57, was shot and killed Saturday before the gunman barricaded himself in the vehicle
I spoke with Jaime Carlin of WatchGuard video to get a sense of what the future holds for this tech
Few forces are shaping law enforcement like video
The crew had found the woman’s body and was bringing back rescue workers when it hit an electrical power cable
The woman had her 8-year-old daughter blow into an ignition device shortly before she crashed and was again charged with drunken driving
The sheriff and his wife were returning home from an outing when the sheriff’s pickup hit the suspect after he jumped a wall into the northbound lanes of I-185
A man was sentenced Tuesday to at least 12 years in prison on third-degree murder, drunken driving and other charges for a wrong-way crash that killed an officer
Trooper Mac Mickens thought he was dead a year and a half ago as he watched a drunk driver come at him as he stood on the shoulder of Florida’s Turnpike
Once the system is activated, any movement will trigger an alarm sound inside the car, the windows will roll up, the doors will lock and the tail lights will flash
The vehicle was already engulfed in flames as officers arrived on scene
One person has been arrested in Austin for throwing lit fireworks into a city police car, setting it on fire, during a protest
No one was inside the patrol car
Police have charged a man with drunken driving and fighting with officers who allegedly found him semi-conscious behind the wheel
Troopers and employees of a towing company helped rescue the puppies
A man fighting a speeding ticket in court had a unique explanation — the officer’s radar gun may have picked up a deer
Police believe the deputy was too drunk to drive and asked the inmate to drive for him
Patrolman David Fahey was struck Tuesday while setting down flares to close lanes after an earlier fatal accident