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.
Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles — now being acquired as surplus equipment by police agencies under states’ 1033 programs — have a high center of gravity, making them prone to topple
A deadly crash on Monday left an off-duty cop with questions about the behavior of other witnesses
Man and his 93-year-old mother decided to keep driving to get the woman’s body to a Michigan morgue
The officer was driving with his lights and sirens on when a vehicle made an illegal left turn in front of him and was broadsided
Deputy Jaron Fountain crashed into a ditch while responding to a burglary in progress that was discovered to be false
20-year-old Matthew Michael Lee McMahon activated a red and blue light Monday while driving behind an unmarked sheriff’s car
A massive manhunt for a heavily armed man in a helmet and body armor, suspected of stealing cruiser before abandoning it, ended last night
Michael Fujikawa sued the city, claiming his arrest was payback for refusing to put his hands on the dashboard and mouthing off to an officer
April 4 pursuit reached speeds of up to 115 miles per hour
The state highway patrol is investigating how a life jacket came off a handcuffed Iowa man after he went overboard
Online reports say Trooper Michael Trotta was listed in stable condition Monday morning
On Friday, the department announced that it had acquired two “unmanned aerial vehicles” as gifts from the Seattle Police Department
The officer said he became aware of his position as a firefighter and “was concerned if a DUI charge was pursued, there may be some sort of reprisal”
14-year-old male driving the car had taken the vehicle from his grandfather
Officers came to the hotel Friday evening to investigate a report that the 33-year-old singer had inappropriately touched a woman at the bar
Officer entered the car through the driver’s side door and tried to stop suspect, who then drove off with the officer still in the vehicle
A police Explorer was in the cruiser filming when the eluding suspect crashed head-on with the cruiser
Trooper Christopher G. Skinner was hit by the suspect while conducting a traffic stop Thursday
The scooter 67-year-old Gilbert LaRocque relies on to get around had run out of power and he could not walk home
Agent Alexander Giannini died and a second agent was injured in a rollover accident Wednesday
Two Stockton police officers were seriously injured in a traffic collision while responding to assist in the arrest of a shooting suspect
Illinois State Police say witnesses reported seeing the deer jump from an overpass onto the vehicle below
Suspect got away when he ran in and out of his own house and officers briefly detained another man inside who had been sleeping
Man tried to back out of traffic stop — crashing into a patrol car and leading deputies on a pursuit before smashing into another patrol car