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The deadly incidents are among the hundreds of fatalities that
occur during police chases each year.
In 2023, a report from the Police Executive Research Forum, a
national think tank on policing standards, called for police to
put the brakes on car chases unless a violent crime has been
committed and the suspect poses an imminent threat. The report
noted a spike in fatalities and an increase in pursuits by some
departments, including in Houston and New York City.
In the case in Alabama, a driver was trying to elude the Alabama
Law Enforcement Agency's highway patrol on a rural road in
southeast Alabama's Pike County when the crash occurred late
Friday night, agency spokeswoman Amanda Wasden said in an email
Sunday. No other vehicles were involved.
The driver and two passengers, one of them a 17-year-old, were
not wearing seat belts and were thrown from the sedan. A third
passenger was not ejected, but all four were pronounced dead at
the scene.
Wasden said the crash was under investigation, and no additional
information was available. Her email did not say what prompted
the pursuit.
In Fort Worth, Texas, police had been pursuing a car which had
been driving without headlights on Interstate 35 when the car
hit multiple other vehicles and eventually crashed, killing the
driver, according to the Fort Worth Police Department.
In southern California, the Pomona Police Department said in a
statement that its officers were pursuing a fleeing domestic
violence suspect Wednesday when his car hit another vehicle,
killing the couple inside. The two were days away from the birth
of their child, according to KCBS-TV.
In another case, the Orange County Sheriff's Department said
that deputies had attempted to stop a stolen U-Haul truck before
it slammed into an SUV, killing the SUV's driver and critically
injuring her three passengers.
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