{"id":5385,"date":"2026-04-05T11:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infonews.ca\/news\/7605891\/4-dead-in-alabama-car-crash-during-pursuit-by-state-trooper\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:30:06","slug":"police-car-chases-result-in-8-deaths-around-us-in-less-than-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infonews.ca\/inwheels\/news\/5385\/police-car-chases-result-in-8-deaths-around-us-in-less-than-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Police car chases result in 8 deaths around US in less than a week"},"content":{"rendered":"

TROY, Ala. (AP) \u2014 A series of police pursuits have led to at least eight deaths around the country in less than a week amid ongoing calls from some law enforcement experts to curb risky high speed car chases.<\/p>\n

In Texas, a man fleeing from police died Sunday. In Alabama, four people died when a car being pursued by a state trooper went off a road and hit a tree Friday. And in California, three people were killed in vehicle crashes during police pursuits in separate incidents last week.<\/p>\n

The deadly incidents are among the hundreds of fatalities that occur during police chases each year.<\/p>\n

In 2023, a report from the Police Executive Research Forum, a national think tank on policing standards, called<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Wasden said the crash was under investigation, and no additional information was available. Her email did not say what prompted the pursuit.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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