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.
Told a 13-year-old girl to stop whining after a hit-and-run crash that killed her father
Coast Guard member shot two colleagues at a condo complex Thursday, lit a car on fire to hamper police, planted fake bombs and then opened fire on cops
An officer feared he was in danger when he twice used a stun gun on a 78-year-old diabetic driver with low blood sugar who crashed into several cars and refused orders to stop
Officers fired shots at the vehicle in an attempt to stop an armed robbery suspect who escaped from a Tenn. mental-health facility in January
Man fired on firefighters and law enforcement before killing himself
Trooper was killed and another seriously injured Saturday after a vehicle struck both of the officers as they were responding to an overturned semi
Detective Michael Starrett was en route to the scene of a fatal accident when he collided head-on with a pickup truck
17-year-old who was fatally shot Monday while driving a stolen car was accused in a separate incident of eluding an officer and resisting arrest 3 weeks prior
Officer involved in the deadly shooting of a 17-year-old may have been injured trying to get out of the way of a stolen car
Policies vary among agencies, and some departments have banned or discouraged the practice
Here are 10 things to keep in mind to mitigate the risk of ambush in your patrol vehicle
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
