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.
When officers need to investigate an unwitnessed vehicle crash, especially a fatal one, they can usually find plenty of physical evidence. Unless, of course, it ends up underwater
Officer was killed while escorting President Barack Obama’s motorcade when his motorcycle was struck by a pickup truck
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
SC deputy could not stop in time after vehicle overturned
The officer was standing on the passenger side of his patrol car, leaning into it to check something on his computer, when he and the car were hit
After 17 years on the force, Officer Huan Nguyen had learned not to get emotionally involved in his work. But then one got through
The bizarre incident occurred on May 13
Cell phone video captured a naked man as he assaulted a woman in the middle of a busy intersection
Department believes officers acted “professionally and within policy” in arresting a man whose lawyer is claiming excessive force
Authorities blame many of the carjackings, ironically, on improvements in vehicle security
Man tried to flee in a police car after freeing his hand from handcuffs during his arrest
An on-duty Franklin County sheriff’s deputy was killed in a wreck late Wednesday
Doug Carey, 70, was hit by a vehicle that ran a red light
An officer was seriously injured after being struck by a minivan while conducting a traffic stop Thursday
Authorities say a man stole a New York City bakery truck and began delivering loaves of bread to random businesses
Officer Katie Brown, 28, and former Binghamton Police Officer Christopher Stoeckel were killed after Stoeckel lost control of his motorcycle
Massachusetts police say a man blew through a stop sign and also blew a cloud of marijuana smoke when he was pulled over
Report describes suspect’s condition as “excited delirium”
Driver and two passengers were able to get out of the vehicle, but were stung 50 to 100 times each, troopers said
Officer who was forced to jump off a bridge as his patrol car came barreling toward him
Excess military material comes at virtually no cost to local law enforcement agencies
A man in his early 20s was arrested after fleeing the scene of the accident
Eight-year-old girl was riding her scooter just outside of her home May 9 when a car fleeing from police hit a parked car, which then crashed into her
Florida officer was forced to fire his weapon at a car carrying suspects in a fatal shooting outside a nightclub
