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.
The “bread and butter” use for the technology is crime scene and accident scene reconstruction
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
Divers found the body of a missing Central Texas sheriff’s deputy Friday, a day after her patrol car was found swamped by floodwaters
Searchers are trying to find a deputy who has been missing since she reported her patrol vehicle was swamped
A woman is dead and a police officer has been seriously injured after she slammed into his patrol car Wednesday morning
13-year-old stole his parents’ car, ran over an officer’s leg and rammed three patrol cars before being struck with a TASER and arrested
Officer drove his cruiser to the front of traffic to protect other drivers. It was then that the suspect closed in, and he prepared for impact
Authorities say an officer in Washington state who had been shot in the leg by a suspect got back into his patrol car and pursued the fleeing man
Whether you’re a motor cop or you ride for fun off-duty, you need to stay extra vigilant on two wheels
A Border Patrol agent involved in a Friday morning car wreck while on duty died from his injuries
Waldo is one of only two U.S. towns officially labeled “traffic traps” by AAA
Department responded by taking its business elsewhere
Officer immediately called 911 and rushed over to the driver who was screaming for help
Vehicle slammed into the office and the driver fired at least four shots at the building
The officer was carried about 50 yards before he was thrown from the vehicle as the man fled the scene
Officer and Marine Corps veteran had worked for the LAPD for 18 months
Officer stopped a vehicle with multiple occupants when at least one person opened fire
44-year-old man was not in a crosswalk, and there were no street lights on the stretch of road where he was hit
Forty-two-year-old Jessica Mathiau was arrested Saturday evening and charged with child endangerment
Man being transported to prison in a Connecticut police cruiser slipped out of his handcuffs and attacked the state trooper behind the wheel
An officer apologized to the woman, told her the officers were called out on the wrong car and let the family leave
Man charged with impersonating a police officer for driving a Maserati that resembled a police cruiser is off the hook
The officer, who has not been identified, suffered a broken leg, cuts and bruises in the accident
Trooper Jack Thorpe was pursuing a speeding motorcyclist when another vehicle intercepted his cruiser
Town now faces a scandal following allegations that the town victimizes motorists to turn a profit
The ensuing standoff with the wounded suspect led to a long Labor Day closure of the freeway
Man is facing charges of impersonating a police officer for driving around a Maserati painted to resemble a police cruiser
A Texas officer was killed instantly after his car left the road and struck a concrete culvert
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