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.
Our profession has done a terrible job regarding car interior safety, and we need to remedy it
Ever notice how a picket fence along the road appears to be racing by at a blur immediately to your three or nine o’clock, but that same fence directly ahead of you barely appears to be moving at all? This is an illustration of how the eyes and brain use motion to assist us in judging speed and distance, including issues of “looming”
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Officer was on his way to a sheriff’s office firing range and training center when he lost control of his vehicle
Justice Department, which is defending the two deputy U.S. marshals being sued, says driver was shot only after he struck one of them with his car
Police believe woman squeezed through an opening in the partition that wasn’t latched and crawled into the front seat before zooming off
Police opened fire and killed a suspect Monday after one officer was struck by a stolen car
When officers approached the vehicle after determining it was stolen, the female driver hit one officer with the car. Police then opened fire
Drunken driver crashed into an empty squad car while officers were busy dealing with another drunken driver they had pulled over
As officers surrounded the vehicle, 34-year-old Calvin Logan, the suspect’s husband, exited a nearby car and approached police, claiming to be an officer
Detective was driving an undercover vehicle Jan. 8 when he veered off the road, striking a tree
The two dogs were terrorizing the neighborhood, biting at least one person and attacking another
Rodella, who was in plain clothes at the time, said Tafoya was a reckless driver whom he was trying to stop in the interest of public safety
The 26-year-old man, who is believed to have been operating under the influence of alcohol or drugs, was arrested after he drove the cruiser into a snowbank
The officer in the vehicle fired several shots at the suspect after he rammed the truck into the cruiser
Woman was drunk when she sped away from police in an SUV that later crashed and flipped with five children inside, ejecting a 2-year-old boy
Police near Pittsburgh say a handcuffed shoplifting suspect climbed into the front of a patrol car and raced off at speeds of up to 100 mph
Officer is hospitalized with serious injuries after being run down Tuesday night by a possible burglary suspect
Officer kept a teenager from being hit by a car as the youth walked along a suburban New York highway
Man suspected of stealing money from a gas station was captured about an hour later after he crashed his car while driving drunk
Officer Craig Chandler has died as a result of injuries sustained in a crash during a pursuit Nov. 23
Matthew Christian Cash was high on PCP when he slammed his vehicle into a cruiser and two other parked vehicles
Gene Thomas Brandon, Jr., who has a history of mental illness, was delusional at the time of the attack
Man sped from the scene after hitting the officer with his car but was later captured after causing a string of crashes
No officers were injured in the rampage
Officer noticed suspect trying to put her vehicle into gear and reached into her window in an attempt to pull the keys out of the ignition
Newly released video footage from officer’s lapel camera shows motorist opening a driver door and firing shots during the weekend traffic stop
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