hkriflenut
July 12th 2008 10:45 PM
Hillsboro (city I live in) Police motors officer struck while conducting a traffic stop.
Police Officer Struck During Stop
StagModel4
July 13th 2008 12:29 AM
That is horrible and the reason i try to move over when I see a traffic cop doing his duty...
hkriflenut
July 13th 2008 2:24 PM
we have a move over law in this state. You see an emergency vehicle stopped, you must either slow down (tho the law is vague and doesn't say by how much, just "to a safe speed" which leaves it to the discretion of the drivers) or move into an adjacent lane.
The guy who hit him, IIRC, was intoxicated. Listen to the audio - and the guy the cop stopped was also stopped for failure to maintain his lane of travel - which is kind of ironic in a sick way. He stopped one guy for failure to maintain a lane of travel, then gets creamed by antoher butthole doing the same thing.
The Officer wound up being OK, thankfully. That accident happened about 2 miles from my place.