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”
Another person suffered non-life threatening injuries when a bullet from the officer’s gun ricocheted off the pavement
The device, which would work much like a radar gun, could differentiate whether the occupants of a vehicle are texting or talking on their phone
Authorities cannot withhold the videos, even if they say they pertain to criminal or internal-affairs investigations
Johnny B. Felton Jr., 54, of Hinesville, Ga., was sentenced to 2 1/2 years of probation after pleading guilty
The officer who was dragged suffered a broken arm
The officer made a traffic stop around 2 a.m. when he was shot in the face
Livonia police were pursuing a man suspected in a home invasion when the suspect’s vehicle collided with a bystander, killing the driver.
Police said they resorted to force only after the passenger repeatedly refused to leave the car and kept reaching toward the back seat
Officer who pulled over a vehicle because a 5-year-old girl wasn’t secured in a booster seat decided a ticket wouldn’t cut it
Fleeing SUV hit and dragged the woman
Dash cam video has been released capturing a dangerous pursuit of two burglary suspects
Man was angry about a pot possession arrest when he drove a tractor over six cruisers and a van owned by the Orleans County Sheriffs’ Department in 2012
Foot pursuit continued even after the suspect was hit with a baton and ended with him slamming an SUV into a restaurant
Prosecutors aim to file new charges against a woman in a chaotic 2013 traffic stop during which an officer fired shots at her van full of kids
28-year-old Officer Jordan Corder was thrown from his motorcycle after striking another driver
Man who crashed his car trying to evade police sped off in and wrecked a police car — then returned to the site in a third vehicle to shoot at deputies
After a pizza delivery driver was injured in a crash in Portland, Oregon, two police officers completed the delivery for him
36-year-old Officer Nicholas Guerrero suffered a “very serious head injury” after he and another officer stopped a car on an arrest warrant
Dash cam video captured an officer’s race against time to save a driver choking on the highway
An officer was killed and eight other officers were injured after a police van crashed Sunday
Sgt. Mike Batchik and Captain Dave Brown responded to the scene of two vehicles on fire in a grocery store parking lot Monday
Police arrested 29-year-old Charles Smith on outstanding warrants Thursday and placed him, handcuffed, in the back of a cruiser
The vehicle collided with another car and then slammed into the eatery Friday
Police across the country are increasingly monitoring car license plates, compiling giant databases of citizens and their daily comings and goings
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