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.
We have a long history of making changes in order to make our officers safer — but those changes didn’t occur overnight and they didn’t come without struggles
Aaron Altenhein, the driver of a pickup truck whose bed liner had fallen off into the highway, was also hit
Tamon Robinson died in April 2012 during a police pursuit in Canarsie, Brooklyn
The force of the impact was so great the vehicle’s engine was launched from the car
Det. Ernest L. Allen Sr. was killed May 9 when an out-of-control concrete truck barreled downhill and slammed head-on into Allen’s pick-up truck
The Tuesday altercation began as the officer attempted to detain a driver who walked away after being pulled over
Officers Thomas Weigand and Mark Bode stopped an SUV after witnessing the driver change lanes without signaling, in addition to having an illegal window tint
Trapped in his car after it was rammed by a pickup, the deputy shot and killed the driver as he approached
The damage caused by the man’s rampage is estimated to be upward of $100K
Other officers at the scene fired at the suspect vehicle as it smashed into several parked police motorcycles
Polaris’ Slingshot offers the comfort and stability of a car and the thrill of a motorcycle
Man was shot and killed after he fired at St. Paul police officers who pulled him over on suspicion of carjacking Sunday
Police say the woman sat in the driver’s seat and told the two plainclothes officers that she intended to drive the vehicle to where she was parked
The officers were upgraded from critical to stable condition following the collision
July 25 pursuit led to the death of a 21-year-old man
The man left the scene and led officers on a high-speed pursuit
Massachusetts State Police say the ax bounced out of a landscaper’s dump truck
NJ detective was acquitted Wednesday of first-degree murder and other charges in the shooting of a driver during a case of road rage
Woman wrote a note to the Idaho State Police thanking the trooper for the kindness he showed her grandchildren during the stop
As the officer spoke with the driver he pulled over, a pickup came within inches of side-swiping him before grinding to a halt
Shortly after handing over his license and registration, the man suffered an apparent heart attack
Dash cam video has been released capturing a driver slamming into a vehicle pulled over to the side of the road during a Texas traffic stop June 20
Deputies broke a car window to arrest a Rock Creek woman who rammed a vehicle, damaging a patrol car and pinning a deputy early Saturday
After police trapped the driver between their cars, he refused to exit his vehicle, responding to officers with a “faraway stare”
Man shot officer at point-blank range during a traffic stop, fled and then executed a carjacking victim moments later
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