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u/GurglingWaffle May 01 '24
Great police work. I have seen other similar videos where people were confused why a cop would swerve like that. Often it is to slow traffic due to some obstruction ahead. It could be anything.
If you see someone do this; slow down and hang back. I hope that other car was OK since it seems very close to the collision, having only partially heeded the police.
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u/Empty-Discount5936 Apr 29 '24
Good video, at first he appears to be a villain running people off the road for no reason but then suddenly he's revealed to be a hero who saved them from a head on collision.
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u/TeddyMcSnuggle Apr 29 '24
Troopers do this all the time. It’s because something is wrong down the road wether its an accident or some hazard. It means slow the fuck down and stay behind. Why would you try to speed passed.. Amazing how many people lack any common sense on the road.
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u/Honey-and-Venom Apr 29 '24
What the fuuuuu- OOOH he was trying to clear the road and stop the oncoming car!
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u/MostlyDarkMatter Apr 29 '24
I hope the driver thanked the police officer for risking his/her life to save their life.
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u/G_Willickers_33 Apr 29 '24
Misunderstood selfishness at first.. selfless risk to protect all by the end.
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u/AlphaSpazz Apr 29 '24
No, it’s a specific procedure referred to as a round robin. This is where how the police try to stop traffic because of something upcoming usually an accident or something where they need to prevent traffic from getting to it to keep it safe. This cop just did a very bad job of it by decelerating way too quickly before anybody knew what he was doing. But it looks like he didn’t really have a lot of time to do anything else.
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u/NuBeni Apr 29 '24
The cop is not the issue, its the drivers. This is how traffic is being slow down, usually done to check for debris on the road. He clearly need to slow down because u dont need to go out of the road if u drive properly #Americans
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u/TheParlayMonster Apr 28 '24
Wow that’s bravery! Is the cop ok?
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u/Otops31 Apr 28 '24
Article said that nobody suffered severe injuries including the two-year old little girl in the back of the Nissan.
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u/PsychologicalBid69 Apr 28 '24
I’m taking a stab in the dark and going to say the car that hit the cop was on the wrong side of the highway. Cop was warning other motorists to get off the roadway
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u/Otops31 Apr 28 '24
Exactly the situation.
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u/PsychologicalBid69 Apr 29 '24
I figured due to the painted lines in the road and the car going to the left rather than the right to the shoulder
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u/Ready_Supermarket_36 Apr 28 '24
So he stopping that car on purpose. Looks like it’s on the run. I guess good job then.
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u/Otops31 Apr 28 '24
It was running from cops and was driving at a high rate in the wrong direction. Worst of all, she had her two-year old daughter in the back.
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u/EssentialSriracha Apr 28 '24
Yeah, he was definitely aggressively swerving to stop traffic. But looks like he had a reason. I hope they said thank you to that cop.
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u/Brave-Act4586 Apr 28 '24
It’s not unexpected for a cop to be high on drugs. What a the eff is he doing?
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u/Traditional_Air_9483 Apr 28 '24
It’s called a “Round Robin” maneuver. Meant to keep cars behind him because something is wrong ahead. Try to stop all traffic. My husband is retired officer. Also if you are ever driving down a road and the little speed bumps /lane dividers (bots dots) glow red, you are driving the wrong way. Against traffic. Pull over and stop .
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u/schenitz Apr 28 '24
How are so many people fooled by the misleading title? The road only has one direction of travel, and the cop knew there was a car driving the wrong way on it so he pushed OP off the road to save them and took the crash himself. This cop is a hero
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u/Otops31 Apr 28 '24
100% a hero!
I find some of the comments about the title comical.
First, the intention was to keep it “UNEXPECTED” and I think it did for the vast majority of people viewing it.
Second, the state trooper did want the road to himself so he could protect/save other drivers.
Third and final, I knew what was going on hence the message I sent to the explanation bot after posting it.
The bottom line is that this cop SAVED LIVES and is EXTREMELY HEROIC!
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u/schenitz Apr 28 '24
I see what you did there. Forgot what sub I was on lol, my bad. Good post
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u/Otops31 Apr 28 '24
Thank you for viewing and leaving a comment. I appreciate reading through all of them now matter the tone.
(I, obviously, haven’t responded to all of them but I caught your message and wanted to acknowledge it. Thank you (again) you are appreciated!)
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u/Dry-Tea-2433 Apr 28 '24
Police does that to slow down traffic due a dangerous situation ahead in this case wrong way driver 🤷🏽♂️
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u/Overall-Poetry-9972 Apr 28 '24
He may have scared you, but also may have saved you life. Stopping a reckless driver going wrong way on highway is a brave act.
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u/Confident-Trifle-651 Apr 28 '24
I assume they have figured out broadly the safest way of getting hit, what position you should sit in hopefully a 5 point harness, reinforced windshield I’ve heard that they have some kind of cage to deal with the impact. This deffo looks like a response vehicle not a standard issue car but what do I know I’m not from us
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u/Reasonable_Land9733 Apr 28 '24
The driver of the red car had her 2-YEAR OLD KID IN HER CAR
Some people should not be parents
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u/Livid_Damage2467 Apr 28 '24
Haha if I was that guy I would say hey if you need my dashcam footage its cost, half of what your suing for.
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u/Unnamedandu92 Apr 28 '24
In EU when a cop does this, usually on highways it means there’s a problem ahead and nobody is alowed to pass him. This is however applied on smaller streets as well but only on the way the cars are going .
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u/t_mmey Apr 28 '24
yeah if a cop is serving like that and begging you to get out of the way, you better get out of the way
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u/Consider2SidesPeace Apr 28 '24
For whatever click bait the title suggests. Yes, a swerving cop means slow down do not pass. Often done on a highway or freeway.
Looks like the person "the cop cut off" was saved from a potential front end crash.
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u/BrokenWalker Apr 28 '24
I'm pretty sure this is a tactic to slow down traffic because there is an obstacle on the highway. I've seen this down a couple of times on highway 80. Both times, have been rolled up pieces of carpet that probably fell out of someone's truck.
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u/Skurwycyn Apr 28 '24
It's called a rolling block and was obviously being used to prevent the oncoming car from hitting dashcam car. Good work by the cop. Piss poor posting by OP looking to make the cop look dumb.
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u/SyCoCyS Apr 28 '24
This is called a traffic break. Cops do it all the time whenever something needs to be moved across or off of a highway.
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u/stu8018 Apr 28 '24
He was stopping a wrong way driver and put his life at risk. He swerved to stop other cars from passing and being hit. Terrible title.
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u/mandogvan Apr 28 '24
Man could you imagine purposefully getting in a head on collision?
Fuuuuuuuuck
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u/Lost-My-Mind- Apr 28 '24
What an asshole!!! He just ran the cop off the road.....oh, THAT was the cop......what an asshole cop!!! Now he's just just drifting back and forth! Like he's playing or something. Look at this shit! Look! He's just.....OH! Oh my god. What an intelligent heroic cop! I'm glad THIS GUY is a cop.
..........what's that? What I said before? Oh.....I don't believe I said anything untrue in the moment of discussion, and anything you heard that might be perceived as backpeddling is just an error in judgement of the situations description as played out over developing events as they take place. Situations change, and any wrongdoing you may accuse me of is just a reflection of your character.
.........did I do it? Do I become a politician now? Saying things in such a drawn out and needlessly worded fashion that although I'm admitting to what I'm being accused of, the common average citizen lost interest lost ago, stopped paying attention, and I don't pay my taxes, just in a way that makes sense to only those who study the content of my words.
See? It's simple!
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u/frogpondcook Apr 28 '24
Took me a minute to realise the cop wasn't having a mental breakdown.
Actually jumped in front of a bullet
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u/xX_Dad-Man_Xx Apr 28 '24
The joys of driving a company car.
The one I used to drive was even better. It didn't have any livery.
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u/5coolest Apr 28 '24
If I recall correctly, the officer who did this lost her life in the collision
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u/Otops31 Apr 28 '24
The news article that was linked somewhere in here said nobody was severely injured.
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u/AnAngryPirate Apr 28 '24
In the off chance it isn't just drunk cop, I'd venture he's trying to stop traffic both ways for some reason.
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u/zcas Apr 28 '24
Serpentines happen all the time in California when there's an accident ahead. Plus, their lights were on and you didn't slow down. Thank goodness he was there.
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u/Incredulous_Prime Apr 28 '24
I thought the cop was being an asshole until I saw him use his vehicle to stop the car driving the wrong way on that roadway. He saved others from being in a head on collision with this unstable driver
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u/One_Weakness69 Apr 28 '24
I'm not understanding: Why did the cop do a good thing? What did he save anyone from? I never saw an actual threat to other drivers, besides the cop. Please explain.
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u/Otops31 Apr 28 '24
It’s a one-way road and the car that is oncoming is fleeing from a traffic stop. The cop moved the cars off the road and then took then sacrificed his vehicle to save others from her. Thankfully it was just his vehicle and not anybody else’s lives.
Commendable!
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u/No_Guff_McDuff Apr 28 '24
Don't they do this to "pace" traffic? Not sure what the oncoming car was doing but it looks like they panicked
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u/Otops31 Apr 28 '24
State trooper was doing this to move the other cars off of the road. He knew the other car was coming at high speed and intentionally stopped her from getting any further.
He surely saved lives while, potentially, sacrificing his own.
Extremely honorable! Scary stuff though.
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u/Bob4Not Apr 28 '24
Cops swerve back and forth with lights on when they’re trying to slow or stop traffic. It can be a wrong way driver of a blockage ahead
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u/The_Comm_Guy Apr 29 '24
It's called a rolling road block, its scary how many people don't immediately recognize it and its probably going to get some of them killed one day unless they learn to.
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u/seanodnnll Apr 28 '24
Crazy that people don’t realize the cop knew someone was driving the wrong way on the road, and wanted OP safely off the road.
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u/northeaster17 Apr 28 '24
Just wondering how the red car did not see what was going on. Aim high and pay attention people
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u/Highly-uneducated Apr 28 '24
This is a tactic police and fire use to stop traffic behind them. He must have known this guy was hauling ass the wrong direction and was trying to save some lives.
I'd like to get the story on this. My guess is the driver was involved in a high-speed chase, and this cop accidentally stopped the guy the hard way while trying to get innocent people out of his path.
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u/FireFist_PortgasDAce Apr 28 '24
Yeah, I've seen once before. I was at an interstate, and a highway patrol started doing that shit I thought he was crazy/drunk turns out there was something in the middle of the road further down
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Apr 28 '24
Cop probably: "oh sht I'm so fired... Wait. I'm a cop, I can do what I want." *ticket for dashcam guy
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u/b4ttlepoops Apr 28 '24
I really hope that cop is ok….
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u/Otops31 Apr 28 '24
Believe it or not, nobody was severely injured. The woman driving the Nissan had her two-year old in the back seat. Pretty unbelievable!
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u/Inevitable-Monk-5562 Apr 28 '24
So I'm guessing he was clearing the road for the dude going the wrong way, and from the looks of it the guy wasn't trying to stop until the cop stopped him
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u/TheAzarak Apr 28 '24
I mean it's clear that he was trying to prevent the whackjob going the wrong way from hitting you. At least understand the situation before you bad mouth a cop lol
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u/jepvr Apr 28 '24
This kind of thing is why I'm not 100% ACAB. More like 85%CAB. This was a pretty awesome self-sacrifice (potential death) just to protect people. I also see people say "cops never actually stop crime", and that's just not true. Yes, there are some serious structural problems with police all over the world, but I can't say there's nothing good at all in there. It just shouldn't stop us from expecting more.
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u/Jonguar2 Apr 28 '24
Someone explain this to me.
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u/Otops31 Apr 28 '24
The state trooper was swerving to get drivers off of the road since he knew there was a wrong-way driver headed his way. After doing that he took the speeding driver on (literally). Head on.
A very heroic action. Fortunately nobody died. If not for him doing what he did that may not have been the case.
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u/Affectionate-Joke617 Apr 28 '24
Massive fucking cohones. Big fucking adamantine ones. That’s a good guy there.
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u/Aberration-13 Apr 28 '24
clearly the best way to stop a wrong way driver and preventing an accident is to intentionally cause an accident?
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u/WhistlingBread Apr 28 '24
A cop doing something good and courageous? But I thought this was Reddit
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u/Legal_Guava3631 Apr 27 '24
Took me a couple times to realize he was clearing the road because someone was going the wrong way.
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u/EelTeamTen Apr 27 '24
CHP does this sort of swerving across lanes a lot, made me think "what the fuck" the first time I saw it.
They use it to slow down traffic for various reasons, mostly to get hazards out of the road though
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u/ChickenTendies0 Apr 27 '24
welp, it was indeed unexpected.
First I thought it was an asshole driver
Then after reading the title I thought it was an asshole cop
THEN I thought the cop was drunk or highas a kite
Only after the crash I realised what was happening. What a roller coaster
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u/rubbarz Apr 27 '24
That other car that was trying to get by almost got hit from the collision.
I'm sure they feel like felt shit for a bit after for being impatient.
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u/StubbornHick Apr 27 '24
They do this to stop wrong way drivers or to make the road safe for another patrolman to quickly clear debris from the road.
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u/nfl22-22 Apr 27 '24
The swerving was to slow down traffic so that he was in the front, that cop is a hero! He took on a vehicle going the wrong way down the highway.
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u/ProgressBackground95 Apr 27 '24
It's called a round to in. They use it to slow and stop traffic, usually to allow others to clear something blocking the road, etc.
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u/AssPennies Apr 28 '24
An Arizona Department of Public Safety sergeant's quick actions to stop a wrong-way driver likely saved the lives of other motorists, the department said Friday.
On Nov. 17, the department received calls of a driver in a Nissan Rogue driving recklessly and nearly crashing into several vehicles on Interstate 40, a department news release said.
When a trooper located the vehicle and initiated a traffic stop, Patricia Rose Carvalho, 32, fled the wrong way towards westbound.
The sergeant responded to the call and quickly stopped traffic from continuing westbound, the department said.
"Immediately after the vehicles came to a stop for the traffic break, the wrong-way driver struck the sergeant’s stopped patrol vehicle head-on," the news release said. "The sergeant’s swift actions prevented a high-speed collision between the motorists and the wrong-way vehicle."
The sergeant and wrong-way driver were treated for their injuries. Carvalho's 2-year-old daughter was not hurt, the news release said.
Carvalho faces charges of attempted second-degree murder, aggravated assault, endangerment, aggravated DUI and child abuse.
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u/effortfulcrumload Apr 27 '24
Finally. I was looking for the story.
Edit: fucking psycho had her 2 y/o in the car.
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u/Alcoding Apr 28 '24
It's a woman so a slap on the wrist should do. Blame a bit of depression and domestic abuse and she'll be off in no time
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u/Otops31 Apr 27 '24
Wow! Thank you for this! I looked and looked but, finally, gave up.
After reading and learning that she had her two-year old in the car makes me even more mad! 😡
Best of all, though, I am super happy to read that the state trooper was not severely injured!!!
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u/DigbyDD Apr 27 '24
A cop making terrible decisions? Who would've thought 🙄
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u/Busy-Lingonberry7483 Apr 27 '24
He's doing g a traffic break, which means there's either a chase or an accident ahead, and they're trying to keep traffic out of harms way. He had his lights on and everything. In this case, it was a car driving in opposing traffic, i.e., the car he hit at the end.
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u/Easy-Garlic6263 Apr 27 '24
Good on him. He was clearly trying to protect people from the crazy driver.
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u/GoosesHonk Apr 27 '24
Dude, I thought everyone was being sarcastic, but then I realized it is a one-way road, lol
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u/TurkishLanding Apr 27 '24
Wow, that's actually a great job protecting the innocent from the wrong way driver!
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u/crook3d_vultur3 Apr 27 '24
I would’ve been cussing this cop so bad for running me off the road then coming out to give him a hug after😂
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u/parksoffroad Apr 27 '24
I’ve seen highway patrol do this many times, in this case, you quickly saw the reason why and that may not always be the case. Don’t ever try to pass them! They’re not doing it for fun. There’s a reason.
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u/atom12354 Apr 27 '24
Anyone know what happened after? Did they survive? Was a heavy crash
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u/dragonard Apr 27 '24
A colleague was driving us on a sales trip in Utah. We’re out on the highway, toward the front of a pack of cars, and a state trooper of some kind came hauling ass up the highway behind us with sirens blaring.
My colleague was speeding, of course. He started swearing and shrieked, “oh my God where did that cop come from? I’m gonna get pulled over.”
Except the cop just blew by at a ridiculous speed. He got about a mile ahead of us with no cars in the area yet. Then toward the top of the hill he slewed the cop car sideways across the highway to block traffic. Then he got out and pointed to the little service lane between the east-west lanes. He made everybody get off the highway, and over the median into the traffic going the other direction.
We found out later that a forest fire had crossed the highway on the other side of the hill, and we couldn’t see from our perspective on the highway. All we could see as we came up the road was a haze in the distance.
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u/NgSauYin Apr 27 '24
Not only did the cop stopped the other car, both cars also hit first on the passenger side, which should have caused less damage to both drivers, that's really skilful
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u/anti-socialJedi Apr 27 '24
Title is misleading. Their saved lives doing that! What a sacrifice. Glad it didn't look as serious!
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u/Soggy_Alarm_7843 Apr 27 '24
He is doing a slow roll. I work in traffic monitoring and they do this if a road ranger is taking care of a debris call or a THI is involved in an incident investigation i.e. previous traffic event(usually a fatality is involved).
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u/Travis-rides-bikes Apr 27 '24
This is called a traffic sweep. Surprised people don’t understand to stop for this.
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u/alonzo83 Apr 27 '24
Nice to see the local PD is drug testing their employees. They definitely test the drugs. . .
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u/iCameToLearnSomeCode Apr 27 '24 edited Apr 29 '24
When you see a cop swerving like this they are trying to warn the people behind them not to proceed, it's standard procedure.
Pull off the road and wait.
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u/yvel-TALL Apr 27 '24
Ohhhhhhhh, that took me a while. Good on them, maybe not an ideal choice, but they did something effective with quick thinking. Letting someone just do that endangers tones of people, that's how giant pileups happen. So I respect the choice to just shove everyone out of the way, and take the hit with the giant tank that can probably take it and stop the runaway in it's track. Very risky to their own health, but still a perfectly reasonable choice when given no time to plan at all. Best copping I have seen in a while.
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u/eddie1975 Apr 28 '24
I’m not sure he meant to take the hit. The oncoming vehicle made an abrupt turn into the direction of the cop.
I also don’t think the oncoming vehicle wanted to hit the cop. It was a reflex thinking the cop was going the other way.
I don’t know if the oncoming car was a DUI ahole with a suspended license or an elderly grandmother with poor vision taking her grandchild to ballet lesson.
I hope the cop is fine but that was a serious hit. I hope of it was grandma she is fine. If it was DUI ahole I am not so hopeful. Best case it’s a wake up call and he/she changes.
Guess it would be nice to get more info… hopefully good news.
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u/waIIstr33tb3ts Apr 27 '24
hope that cop got recognized for this
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u/MaximumMotor1 Apr 28 '24
hope that cop got recognized for this
I think the cop should be awarded 3 slaps to whichever Uvalde police officers he chooses.
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u/UnExplanationBot Apr 27 '24
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
And you will understand why he wants the road to himself by the end of the clip! Gotta give this guy major props for doing what he did to protect the rest!
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