Struck By Incidents

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  • Missouri: Deputy Hit by Car During Traffic Stop

    Deputy hit by car during traffic stop. The Highway Patrol is looking for a suspect in a hit-and-run that injured a Miller County deputy last week.

  • Missouri: Kansas City Officer Struck by, Hit and Run

    A Kansas City, MO, police officer has been struck by a hit-and-run driver, police say. Kansas City police confirm that shortly before 9:40 p.m., an officer was making a traffic stop near 25th and Montgall on the city's east side. After the officer got out of his car to approach the suspect vehicle, the female driver put the car into gear, struck the officer and drove off. Another story can be found at: http://fox4kc.com/2014/11/08/kcpd-officer-struck-by-car-while-conducting-traffic-stop/ f.

  • New Hampshire: State Polcie Say Storms Are Sending cars Sliding Into their Cruisers

    It’s been a bad couple of weeks for New Hampshire State Police cruisers. As many as 11 cruisers have been damaged statewide in accidents since the Thanksgiving week snowstorm that blasted the state. The majority of those crashes involved cruisers being struck while troopers were assisting at accident scenes.

  • North Carolina: Fayetteville Officer Struck During Traffic Stop

    A Fayetteville officer and a driver he stopped on Bragg Boulevard escaped serious injury Monday when a vehicle hit the car door they were standing behind, police said. Another story can be found at: http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/27355146/fayetteville-officer-hit-by-car-in-traffic-stop

  • Pennsylvania: Police Officer Struck While Investigating Crash in Cheltenham Twp.

    A Cheltenham Township police officer is hospitalized after being struck by a car while investigating an earlier crash. It happened at 6:30 a.m. Thursday on Washington Lane near Township Line Road. Another story can be found at: http://www.montgomerynews.com/articles/2014/12/12/glenside_news_globe_times_chronicle/news/doc5489b87e35a2b416959176.txt

  • Connecticut: Officer Struck by Fleeing Driver; Narcotics Found

    In Hamden, Connecticut an officer was struck. The vehicle operator appeared overly nervous and possibly inebriated during questioning, Harkins said. The driver put the car in gear, grazing a police officer as he sped off. After a pursuit of the fleeing vehicle onto Central Avenue and then Yale Avenue, the driver turned onto West Rock Avenue, where he pulled the vehicle to the side of the road, then fled on foot.

  • Ohio: Firefighters Struck on Ohio Turnpike

    Just before 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, a Canfield fire truck and turnpike vehicle responded to a call for a vehicle into a guardrail on the Ohio Turnpike. “They had just arrived on the scene and just taken their seat belts off and then the impact happened,” Cardinal Joint Fire District Chief Don Hutchinson said. Hutchinson said crashes like the one on Wednesday are something they train for and always have in the back of their minds when responding to call on a major highway. An SUV that stopped behind the fire truck was slammed into by a pick-up towing a car hauler. The SUV burst into flames and its driver Karen Zorn, 27, of Maryland, died. Firefighters Brian Blevins and Troy Kolar had to climb through the windows of the truck to try and help the victims and put out the fire. Hutchison said his guys put their lives on the line each and every day on duty. “There is a possibility something bad can happen to them also, just like everything else, even out there trying to help

  • Texas: Two Deputies Struck

    Two Montgomery County sheriff's deputies were injured when they were struck by a vehicle after stopping to help a stranded motorist on Interstate 45 near Highway 105 early Wednesday morning.

  • Arkansas: Jonesboro Officer Struck

    Jonesboro police say an officer has been injured after being struck by a car while directing traffic. Officer Nathan Ivy was taken to an area hospital after being hit in a Jonesboro intersection Tuesday night. Ivy was directing traffic while maintenance crews worked on a traffic light, which was turned off.

  • Arkansas: Officer Hit by Car While Directing Traffic Released from Hospital

    A Jonesboro police officer hit by a car while directing traffic Tuesday night has been released from a local hospital.

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