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Focus on officer wellness: prevent struck-by incidents at crash scenes
Fowler ML , Knuth R . Police Chief 2021 1-9 There are more than 800,000 state and local law enforcement officers (LEOs) in the United States. Officers that perform traffic-related duties are exposed to the risk of being struck by passing vehicles while working outside of their patrol cars. In the last decade, on average, one officer per week was killed on U.S. roads. Traffic-related incidents-vehicle crashes and being struck by moving vehicles while on foot-are a leading cause of death for officers. From 2011 to 2020, there were 1,762 officer line-of-duty deaths. Of that total, 367 officer line-of-duty deaths were due to vehicle crashes (21 percent of total), and 131 officer line-of-duty deaths were due to being struck by a vehicle (7 percent of total). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has been studying vehicle crashes and struck-by incidents among LEOs for nearly a decade. The NIOSH Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program investigates LEO line-of-duty deaths (LODDs) due to motor vehicle events. The investigators identify risk factors for vehicle crashes and struck-by LEO LODDs and develop prevention recommendations that can be applied in the field. NIOSH shares these recommendations with law enforcement agencies across the United States, with the goal of reducing LEO motor vehicle-related deaths. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's third quarter report for 2021, 44 officers were killed in traffic-related incidents during the first three quarters of 2021. Of these 44 traffic-related fatalities, 23 were struck-by fatalities, where officers on foot were struck and killed by vehicles. Many of these fatal struck-by crashes occurred while officers were investigating motor vehicle crashes or assisting motorists on the side of the road. Secondary crashes caused by distracted or impaired drivers continue to be the main circumstance for officers being struck and killed by vehicles. For the 70 struck-by events involving LEOs from 2015 to 2019, a third involved a "Slow Down and Move Over" violation, and almost half of the officers struck were engaged in some type of traffic enforcement. |
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