Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Police Officer Can't Wait to Get Home

Fortunately for the officer, it wasn't his home.

On a more serious note, this is why you're supposed to stop in the name of the law.

The Tigard, Oregon Police Department has released video from a collision that resulted in one of the agency's officers crashing into a Tigard home in early September. The department today said that the officer, 34-year-old Caleb Phillips, a three-year veteran of the agency, was not to blame in the collision.

Clyde Allen Rizzutto, 65, of Tigard, will receive a failure to yield to an emergency vehicle citation in connection with the crash, said Jim Wolf, Tigard police spokesman. The Washington County Crash Analysis Reconstruction Team investigated the collision, which occurred Sept. 3.

Investigators determined the crash was preventable, Wolf said, and that the motorist, identified as Rizzutto, was at fault. "If the motorist would have pulled to the right, there wouldn't have been a collision," Wolf said. The resident of the home was not hurt and was reportedly in a different room of the house. No one was seriously injured.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looked to me it was all the cops fault, look at the closing speed, way to fast for city streets

Anonymous said...

what is the nonsense? police allowed to drive at any speed, isn't it?
looked to me you did you ever yield police car?

Anonymous said...

The police officer looks at fault as his siren wasn't on long enough before the crash which didn't give the car enough time to react.