Are you serious ??
How is a police officer supposed to stop him and or arrest him if he won't stop. All the Jackwad had to do was pull over and stop. The only person to place any blame on here is the ***** 4 Brains driver of the truck. If the driver was stupid enough to run in the first place he is clearly to stupid to care or even realize the damage and injurys he has caused to innocent people.
"the cop made him panic even worse" What a lame excuse

 

actually a lot of jurisdictions have mandates to back off, if said idiot starts endangering lives and they can't take them out relatively quickly for just that reason.

 

dead serious....

kp02-150 is right, the officer would have caught him eventually. i dont think he should have agitated the person in the F150 on that 1 way road. its bad enough the 150 was going the wrong way, no there are 2 cars going the wrong way! what if you had your kid in the back seat going the correct way on that road? id me pretty upset if i seen the cop FLYING towards me. let alone the jerk in the truck. thats what backup is for.

 

True. Either this wasn't one of those jurisidictions or the "cancel the pursuit" call hadn't been made yet.
IMO the Only reason a person runs from the police is either the Have done something wrong or Are doing something wrong or have something to hide that will get them into legal trouble.
There is No reason or excuse to Ever justify driving like this person was and endangering lives like he did.
If your clean, conducting your life like a responsible, respectable citizen, have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, just simply pull over. This driver is just an idiot, plain and simple.
Take him out behind the barn and put one in his head.
Allright, I'm done, I vented, I expressed my opinion and now I feel better.

 

How does the officer "Agitate" the driver ?
The driver of the truck is solely responsible for everything that happens in that pursuit. Nobody Made him run in the first place ! He himself chose to drive the wrong way on that road. He is the one choosing to drive like a lunatic. These decisions were ALL made by the driver of the truck. Nobody is forcing him to do it, certainly not the police officer chasing him.
I surly agree with some of your post. This was clearly a bad situation that ended in tragedy.

 

If anything the cops flashing lights made the situation more clear to oncoming traffic.

 

I'm not saying I agree one way or the other, but the argument is that he wouldn't have gone into oncoming traffic (again) if they would have laid off.

When he finally crashed it could have been a hell of a lot worse.

It looked to me like the cop was doing 71 in a residential neighborhood before even seeing the perp, so he could have easily been involved in something similarly ugly.

 

i agree to a certain point. i meant "agitate" as in, someone is doing something illegal what do they do? freak out, run ETC. in situations like the cop was put in "chasing him up a one way highway" its hard to make the right call but, he should have stopped and called for back up and simply let another cop ****** him or lay spike strips up the road. instead, the guy in the truck was probably paying attention to the cop and didn't see the other car coming causing the crash. im not saying its the cops fault by any means.. just wondering if that accident could have been avoided.

 

"my legs broke i need an ambulance" hahaha classic. what a jack. I always get a kick out of watching these idiots wreck their rides and get effed even more than they would if they just stop.

 

Absolutely. Had the driver of the truck Not run in the first place, there would have been No accident.
Despite what might have happened or not happened, had the police officer dropped the pursuit, it all boils down to the simple fact that none of the events that took place or could have taken place would have happened if the driver hadn't run in the first place .
There is only 1 person to blame for any of that situation.
I think everyone can agree and has, that those involved whether voluntarily or involuntarily are very lucky that the outcome wasn't worse. I was shocked to hear that there were no fatality's from the white car.

 

looked like a trailblazer or maybe a tahoe was the white one that got Tboned, and holy cow see the crater the F150 left in the side of the SUV?

 

I suppose there is some comfort to be taken in seeing how well our trucks can hold up in such a horrific crash.
I have been there first hand in a head on with a geo tracker with my "97" fortunatly myself, my passanger and the other driver all walked away but that Geo Tracker looked like it had gone through a shredder and a compactor at the same time, what a mess.

 

That's about what my '98 Explorer looked like when a woman ran a red light doing about 55 MPH and hit me in the drivers door.

 

I have to agree with 88 and kp. The cop should have backed off. In fact, it looked like he passed a couple other cops in the pursuit who were NOT pursuing. A local cop almost got killed here the other day pursuing someone who came out of a drug house they were watching and then ran on a motorcycle. The cop was trying to pull him over for having no tag and I guess assumed he was a drug addict/dealer for being at that house. Stupid assumption. Now he is clinging to life. Is it worth it?

I don't know what this driver did, but was catching him worth putting all those lives in danger? Maybe if the cop had backed off he would have just gone about his way. Maybe not, who knows, but obviously chasing him didn't work out to well for anyone.

 

WHO put all those lives in danger? WHO started the situation ? WHO initiated the events that took place ? WHO turned onto a one way street going the wrong direction first ? WHO crashed into the white suv because he was being stupid ?
THE DRIVER OF THE TRUCK !! Not the police officer !
Yes Maybe things might have ended differently if the cop had backed off, maybe not. The cop was just doing his job, he didn't start or initiate the chain of events. Hmmm. I wonder who did.
Obviously Running from the police didn't work out to well for anyone either.
HMMM. I wonder how this whole mess might have been prevented ?

Some people are just plain Stupid, the driver of the pickup is just one of them. You just can't fix being stupid.