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A number of people were injured when a police cruiser crashed into a car and then headed into people on a sidewalk in the East Village. The incident occurred on Avenue D: According to WCBS 2, "the police car was traveling at a high rate of speed northbound." The Post reports the "cop car, which was traveling in the wrong lane while apparently on a chase, smashed into a white Cadillac making a right turn at Avenue D and Fifth street. Then the cruiser went on the sidewalk and hit a building—and some people. The cruiser was also traveling very fast, perhaps chasing another vehicle—one witness told the Post that three people plus a baby were sent flying by the impact, "The baby was in the stroller and it flew up in the air. The baby landed under the police car. The mother was panicking holding the baby. She was in shock." Another witness said he didn't hear a siren while a third said, "The problem is they were going so damn fast. These guys were going 55 miles an hour."
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Those Mariachi guys piss me off when you enter a mostly silent subway car.
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Enough with the damned chases already. It's a real bang up day for the NYPD today.
55 mph is really not that fast in the city. I remember an accident on the West Side Highway a few years ago and the driver was in excess of 100mph when he crashed his father's Mercedes coupe about 24th Street and the engine landed a block away. That is excessive.
I hope the "victims" are OK.
West Side Highway != Ave D
im sorry i know you posted a few hours ago but i must respond to your stupid comment. First off, 55 mph on a new york city street is VERY FAST. Secondly, your stupid story about the mercedes coupe is totally irrelevant being that the asshole was driving on the fucking west side highway. The assholes in question in this story were driving on fucking avenue D. 55 on FUCKING AVENUE D!
"Victims"? Yeah, that asshole baby in the storyteller is totally unjustly trying to blame someone else for getting hit by a car.
Swing and a miss!
I would like to opt to not be "protected" by the NYPD please. Thanks.
I hope you get robbed, mugged and raped.
spoken like a true NYC police officer. go back to long island you psycho.
Just this week I saw a cop go down the wrong way on a one way in the village just to park on the sidewalk to grab lunch. I swear to god, they got lunch and came back 10 minutes later with food.
I'm not surprised. For way too many cops, the attitude is, "We enforce laws. We don't have to follow them."
"These guys were going 55 miles an hour."
Did the witness have a radar or laser to prove it was 55 mph? Just throwing numbers around is reckless.
Gee, someone's on the defensive.
"Reckless" is what these officers were when they sped into oncoming traffic on a city street. Chase or no chase, nothing is worth risking the lives of innocent bystanders.
"55 mph is really not that fast in the city."
Just because people often speed in the city, doesn't make it acceptable. 55 mph on tiny one way streets is insane.
"Did the witness have a radar or laser to prove it was 55 mph? Just throwing numbers around is reckless."
No. Driving fast enough for stuff like this to happen on tiny alphabet city streets is reckless.
"Victims"? Yeah, that asshole baby in the storyteller is totally unjustly trying to blame someone else for getting hit by a car.
"that asshole baby in the storyteller" That is classic.
Ok, I live near here, and heard (but did not see) the whole thing happen. There was no siren prior to the accident -- I heard screeching brakes and screaming and a couple of loud bangs. Also, if you read the referring articles, the baby did not land underneath the cop car, its stroller did. The quick-thinking mom grabbed her baby out of the stroller when she saw the car flying up the sidewalk, (but it hit her anyway).
I must say that I often see cops speeding up Avenue D, and I doubt that there was a "chase" involved. That something like this happened does not surprise me.
"lets go mow down those niggers like we used to in the south"
Yeah, NYPD isn't allowed to chase people. ESPECIALLY not in city streets.
No sirens... no chase.
And yeah, pretty sure the NYPD is responsible for more crime than the people they put behind bars. I mean I feel bad for 1% of cops that aren't complete failures, but I've never been mugged in NYC. I have been ticketed for things that are in no way illegal. And I have yet to see a cop say "Hey why the hell are we being allowed to search bags on the subway. This is fundamentally wrong."
So yeah, no sympathy here. Arrest and charge them. 2 more criminals off the street.
According to some studies around 300 people are killed in high speed chases every year, and police chases are controversial because they are usually unnecessary. In most cases the car owner/driver is identified or identifiable and can be apprehended safely later as their crime is often non-violent. Until the high speed chase.
There's a reason cars are treated as deadly weapons--they are thousands of pounds of metal traveling at velocity. Police chases have been under constant scrutiny by community-based police review boards but accountability is difficult to win.
One study here:
http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/2004archive/04-04archive/k040704.html
According to some studies around 300 people are killed in high speed chases every year, and police chases are controversial because they are usually unnecessary. In most cases the car owner/driver is identified or identifiable and can be apprehended safely later as their crime is often non-violent. Until the high speed chase.
There's a reason cars are treated as deadly weapons--they are thousands of pounds of metal traveling at velocity. Police chases have been under constant scrutiny by community-based police review boards but accountability is difficult to win.
One study here:
http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/2004archive/04-04archive/k040704.html
Might I ask of the 300 deaths, how many are felons? Also how many high speed chases result in an arrest of a felon? To continue how many high speed chases are there a year?
How many of the high speed chases result in an arrest of a driver driving with a suspended or a DWI/DUI suspension of license? Considering how many people are killed on the US highways every year, 300 is not a lot.
Might I ask you if you sniff Charlie Brown's butt?