I was working a funeral escort for a deputy’s family member. The video starts at the first intersection we shut down which was a major road in the area. As the precession came through the intersection I started to head down to the next intersection. The precession was traveling at 25 mph. which allowed us to pass safely at 45-50 within the construction zone. Well I didn’t not make it too far in the precession when an elderly man pulled out in front of me causing me to take out several traffic barrels. The elderly man didn’t even see me and continued to pull out into the precession cutting off the family members and pulled into a business where he had an appointment to replace his hearing aid. The only good part of this is that my Captain, Sergeant and zone partner where all in the precession and I think I was cleared by our accident review board faster than any in recent department history. My emergencies light were activated and my siren was being used on manual only. After pulling the barrels out from under my car my captain stopped me and shook my hand on missing the elderly man and a lieutenant form the local P.D. which worked the crash asked for the video for training. I then moved over to where the elderly man was, by this point he had been informed as to what he did and as I played the video for he looked at me and said he never saw him but there was an officer that flagged him through. Not too sure who he was looking at but I was the only Deputy at that intersection at that time.
the first video is the dash cam form my patrol car, the second is of my patrol vehicles lights at the scene, the center light and two outside lights are steady burn the rest flash. my iphone makes it look like they are all flashing.
the first video is the dash cam form my patrol car, the second is of my patrol vehicles lights at the scene, the center light and two outside lights are steady burn the rest flash. my iphone makes it look like they are all flashing.
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