According to the ODMP 3 cops have been killed in crashes since Friday, accounting for all the LEO deaths in that period. Each of these tragedies is screaming at us, mainly to slow the hell down. I don't know the backstory to any of them, just that whatever call they were on, no matter how serious it was, wasn't resolved by them dying en route. What I did glean was that each officer had from one to five years on the job, which takes you from the end of the "I don't know what the hell I'm doing" phase into the "I know everything there is to know" period. Nor does physics care how good a driver you think you are. Neither do other drivers.
I do know that I have to get some seat time in a Hemi Charger. I just have a gut feeling that in a car that small and light, with that amount of torque and top end, damp pavement or a dirty road could exacerbate any heavy-footedness on the accelerator. A Charger from an agency that shall remain nameless drifted all the way through the better part of an interstate on-ramp as I was in the opposite lane, and it looked pretty sporty, the bad kind of sporty.
On a completely unrelated note, it's nice to be back in the South, where cops (generally) run all blue lights like cops are supposed to. And to think that the Ohio State Patrol is one of the rare agencies in Ohio to run all blue now....
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