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Contact : Kiley Friesen
Email : ----------@spokanepolice.org
Date : 7/1/2010
Incident #: 10-211283

Officer Injured in Collision
Around 9:35am this morning, a Spokane Police Traffic Officer was driving eastbound on Northwest Blvd when he noticed a motorist driving recklessly in the opposite direction. The motorist struck a rock and continued driving on the grass lining the sidewalk. As the officer made a U-turn to initiate a traffic stop, the motorist struck a telephone pole. The pole fell across the roadway, narrowly missing the officer. A cable attached to the pole "clotheslined" the officer, pulling him from his motorcycle by his neck. The line caused significant damage to the officer's neck, and the fall destroyed the officer's uniform. The police motorcycle continued driving several hundred feet, coming to a stop at Northwest Blvd and G Street.
The officer was able to call police dispatch for assistance and provide a suspect vehicle description. Citizens in the area were very helpful, tending to the officers injuries and assisting with suspect information.
Officers located the suspect vehicle, which suffered body damage and a flat tire. The driver and the vehicle were found at Northwest Blvd and I Street. The 52 year old driver of the vehicle, Susan Troyer, was arrested for Felony Hit and Run and Vehicular Assault.
The officer was transported to a local hospital where he is being treated for his injuries, which are serious, but non-life threatening. The officer's name will not be released today.
While officers are aware of the inherent dangers of their job, it is instances like these that serve as reminders that they are vulnerable to significant injury in the normal course of their duties.
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Wow what a weird one. :shock:

Hope the officer recovers from his injuries and has no problems later on.

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I seen a couple photos of his neck.
Ouch.

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A woman I used to work with in another capacity had left a local PD, and was transitioning to her new job over the course of a week. One morning she came out the front door of her house as a Tacoma Solid Waste garbage truck drove by. The driver had still left the lift arms in the up position, and as she walked down her driveway, one of the arms snagged an over head wire, pulling it along with the truck. She was caught by the wire and pinned against the front of her house as the driver noticed continued on down the block. Apparently it was around 20 minutes before someone backtracking the path of destruction noticed her pinned to her house by the wire. IIRC she had some slight injuries but was otherwise fine.

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Slightly off topic but...

When I was stationed in Japan in the service way back when.

A woman had taken in her car to the base exchange garage to have new tires put on.

She returned to pick up the car that afternoon and drove away from the garage after paying for the tires and their installation.

She got about one block away from the garage and stopped at a stop sign.
She felt the car drop forward and saw her left front wheel rolling on down the street!

There was a slight hill and the wheel began to pick up speed as it rolled.

It rolled along and hit the curb after rolling about a block. It bounced up in the air
and hit a man in the back of the head who was walking the other way on the sidewalk and killed him instantly.

The garage had forgotten to put the lug nuts on that wheel!

The poor woman and her family were shipped back to the States the next day.

I am sure there was a law suit but I never heard any more about it.

I check my lug nuts often after that :wink:

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" SILENCE IS CONSENT "

Made to Government Specs:
1) Measured with a micrometer.
2) Marked with a chalk.
3) Cut with an axe.

Jim N7UAP - Bellingham, WA / InterceptRadio.com