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.
FBI spokeswoman said the incident was not believed to be linked to terrorism
Witnesses say a driver turned into the procession Saturday, sending George Brooks into the air before he hit the pavement
Officer returned fire during Sunday’s encounter in Santa Clarita
Official said it appeared suspect was pointing a gun at officers as he was being pursued
Family’s attorney believes gas inside the vehicle was ignited by the ECD, causing the deadly explosion
Christopher Booker, 42, apparently suffered a seizure on Dec. 3, when he struck John Adsit and other officers who were monitoring a protest
Man killed after police said he drove a Maserati toward them admitted last year to driving toward another officer and accelerating, according to court records
Officer Cesar Nelson responded to a domestic disturbance February 16 when the attempted ambush occurred
Spring can become unseated and may become unlatched in a side-impact crash, increasing the risk of injury
Family members calling for investigation into whether plainclothes cops who killed woman had properly ID’d themselves when they approached her car
Investigators have applied for a warrant to test the driver’s blood-alcohol level following the crash early Friday
Officer who was badly injured in an on-duty car crash last year recently received a $70K device to aid in his recovery
Car carrying 3 off-duty NJ cops crashed into a truck Friday, killing 1 cop and another person and leaving 2 officers critically injured
Washington State Troopers arrested a 36-year-old man who they say drove a stolen car into their parking lot at a district office
At one point the motorcyclist was cornered in a dead-end street but drove right past an officer, almost clipping the patrol car’s open door
Officials said the officer, one of two motorcycle officers working the funeral procession, died at a hospital
Two plainclothes officers shot and killed a woman who they said was driving erratically and hitting other motorists Tuesday evening
23-year-old Jose Espinoza ran from police after being caught with a stolen car
26-year-old officer was responding to a call when he over-corrected in an attempt to avoid another vehicle
Blood-alcohol content was 0.18 percent, more than twice the legal limit
The pre-dawn attacks were not the first ones this year
A fisherman spotted the car March 7, the day after it hit a cement barrier on a bridge and careened into the river in Spanish Fork
Prosecutors said shortly before the carjacking, the Tsarnaev brothers shot MIT Officer Sean Collier in a failed attempt to steal his gun
Died of a blood clot related to a crash that occurred on-duty last month
One suspected gunan died at the scene, another person was hospitalized in critical condition and two firefighters sustained minor injuries
Officer en route to training was killed in a crash early Wednesday
Suspect was handcuffed and put in the front seat of a CHP SUV when the incident occurred
Some of the pot bales that suspects tossed out of an SUV during a high-speed pursuit got picked up by passing vehicles
