Officer in Bush's motorcade dies after crash

[kulwen]

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[wheatonFJR]

Sad...very sad...

Can't believe there was another one

 

[AStar]

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Very sad for the family of the Officer. It doesn't matter how mad we get with Police Officers and Troopers for writing tickets, They are what keeps the scumbags from all the law abiding citizens. If it were not for all the police officers in this country, none of us could sleep at night. God Bless Him.

 

[FJR_pig]

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Very sad for the family of the Officer. It doesn't matter how mad we get with Police Officers and Troopers for writing tickets, They are what keeps the scumbags from all the law abiding citizens. If it were not for all the police officers in this country, none of us could sleep at night. God Bless Him.

Kind words, very true.

Motorcade escorts, albeit one of the more fun duties we did when I rode for work, are dangerous and thankless duties. Especially when we had to zip around with those darn Democrats.

My family is saying a prayer for his tonight. This one hit close to home.

 

[dbvolfan]

sad indeed but I am still puzzled as to how this can happen...ok, once, maybe, but twice? Is it really THAT hazardous? I am not flaming or anything...just wondering what makes it so darn dangerous because I am just curious. If I remember, both of these guys went down not when escorting the Prez but afterwards?

 

[Inlaw1]

Is it really THAT hazardous?

Yes, it can be. Just a couple of days ago we had TWO moto cops doing escort work in the same funeral procession taken out by an errant driver that turned right into their path.

Both are expected to recover fully though so it wasn't as bad as it could of been.

 

[wfooshee]

None of our local agencies even have 2-wheel officers any more. We used to have several city cops and a large number of sheriff's deputies. Occasional speed enforcement duty (my second ever traffic ticket was from a cop on a bike, interrupted his sandwich), but mostly escort, as in funerals. AFAIK, not a single bike LEO exists in the county today, mostly due to a large number of accidents in funeral escorts. It would take several units to escort a funeral, and they would put the bike in the intersection, dismount to stand at parade rest as the procession passed, then mount and pass the procession to their next intersection, leapfrogging other officers on the way. That passing to get ahead was always the scary part. Sometimes some idiot on the other side of the street from the cop would zoom as soon as the last car passed, not realizing the LEO was there.

So yes, escort is hazardous. The presidential motorcade doesn't hang around. When Bush was here during the 2000 campaign I stood at the roadside and they passed at about 40 MPH, on a 2-lane downtown business street, and I think they'd slowed because the intersection ahead was rough (bad road crowns, and they still bottomed out every vehicle!)

As far as crashing afterwards, I couldn't say anything to that.

 

[FJRMGM]

news on TV said he collided with another motorcycle officer before hitting the curb and then the tree.

Any way it happened it was a bad scene.