Wild Vid: British Cop Gets Hit by Speeding Car & Still Chases Down Crook
- Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:15pm by
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A police officer in Surrey, England, arrested a man who had struck him at high speed with a stolen car only moments before.
Sky News reported on the incident Tuesday, in which police officer Dan Pascoe set up a road block, and was then struck by the stolen vehicle he meant to capture.
Despite being flung into the air as the stolen car careened off his vehicle, Officer Pascoe set off on a foot race with the suspect and tasered him before collapsing. Assisting officers on the scene then arrested the suspect.
Inspector Chris Colley, Pascoe’s boss, gave tremendous credit to his officers, saying that:
‘the officers, particularly PC Pascoe, had to react extremely quickly and despite the shock and possible injuries they may have sustained during the collision they were determined not to let the suspect get away.’
The suspect pleaded guilty to charges of dangerous driving, failing to stop at the scene of an accident, driving while disqualified, driving without insurance and resisting arrest and received a 23 month sentence.
Watch the incredible video below:
(h/t Business Insider)
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Comments (57)
octopnw
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:15pmOC, ca. cops have the worst attitudes!! Maybe it’s just that they are frustrated over being investigated every time they arrest a wet back, but boy do they have a “I have a gun” attitude :(
Report Post »Patrick in AZ
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:16pmThe suspect pleaded guilty to charges of dangerous driving, failing to stop at the scene of an accident, driving while disqualified, driving without insurance and resisting arrest and received a 23 month sentence.
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I thought he was in a STOLEN vehicle; what happened to that charge?
otmonger
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:00pmDamn good thing it was not me! I would have pulled a 40S&W not a tazer!
Report Post »swankyc
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 6:45pmThe guy that hit the cop is lucky he isn’t in the American police state. The cop woulda stopped and threatened to blow everyone’s *&%^$# head off in the car if they moved an inch – Kids or no.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 6:12pmAmerican cops are too busy beating homeless people to death.
Report Post »olddog
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:58pmEngland swings like a pendulum do and bobbies run down the freeway just a chasing you. Is anyone old enough to remember that old Burl Ives song?? 50″s music, now that was Real rapping…
Report Post »pennsychica
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:52pmHere in the U.S. the guy would have been charged with felony attempted murder and all sorts of crimes of intent of harming an officer…
Report Post »Casca
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:23pmThe perp runs like a little girl. Bet he screamed like one too when he got tased!
Report Post »Joseff
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:35pmThey all scream like little girls when they get tased.
Joe
Report Post »busterpuddles
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:56pmcar wreck+ tough cop+ long, strong legs = jail time
Report Post »IvanK
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:38pmToo bad the Bobbies don’t carry fire arms… This way he could have saved the locals a few hundred grand in tax dollars over the long haul. I realize that is a seriously harsh statement but my thinking here is that if the criminal does not care about the people he tries to kill (as you just saw in the crash), then said criminal knowingly forfeits his life.
Report Post »18 years ago my father killed an armed robber in Tx during a home invasion. The robber was high on Cocaine and was looking to rob them for money to fuel his freebase addiction.
Not a day goes by that my father doesn’t think about that incident and he has nightmares constantly. He regrets being in that situation, but despite his pain and agony over killing the thug, he’s stated that he would do the exact thing over again if it meant protect my mothers life (as he did that day). He hates what he did but my mother is still around to make him dinner every night. I still have a mother I can call every weekend. My nieces and nephews have two grand parents still around to love them.
loriann12
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:50pmI was reminded of Robin Williams…they yell stop, and if the criminal doesn’t stop, they yell stop again.
Report Post »dangarh01
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:41pmthats one tough Bobby
Report Post »babylonvi
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:31pmThat brave officer certainly has determination, skill and cajones to do what he did. Ge certainly DOES warrant a commendation. At least he had a taser, but they should be armed as well in this day and age. That tiny vehicle used as a police unit is also scary. Nothing like a Crown Vic(with the fire suppression system) instead of those micro-cars. Finally, 23 months for attempted vehicular homicide of a LEO is a joke. No wonder there is no respect for the law there(or here in the liberal jurisdictions as well).
Report Post »brian8793
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:15pmGET THAT BLOKE!
That cop has minerals…
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:11pmThat‘s what the cop get’s for driving on the wrong side of the road.
Simple solution, just move the steering wheel to the left.
BRASIL2520 your source for stimulating spontaneous creative thinking !
Report Post »Son_of_Liberty
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:07pmDaniel Harless of canton P.D. should take notes!
3%
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:22pmThat man should be in a straight jacket in a soft walled room with a door knob on the outside only.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:07pmTough cop! I like it!
Report Post »Heitah
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:30pmThese notes are crazy. I don’t think this could have ended better.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:27pmQuarterbacks get hit harder all the time.
Report Post »Attention2Detail
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:42pmYeah, I see QBs being hit by cars all the time, and then they jump right up and make the tackle fifty yards downfield. Oh wait, that was this cop, the quarterbacks usually get hit be a 250 lb guy and then get up slowly and limp to the huddle where they curse out the blocker who let the guy through. Football players are tough, but this cop is tougher. And you are a jerk.
Report Post »busterpuddles
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:53pmQBs have padding, too.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:02pmOur Cops are too busy shutting down those illegal lemonade stands.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:02pmOr scaring little girls who rescrew baby birds.
Report Post »Drum Man
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:00pmStop thief! Or I’ll say STOP AGAIN!!! They seriously need guns there…
Report Post »Rugnuts
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:21pmi was about to say:
if the officer had a gun he could have just shot the guy on foot instead of chasing him down with “what would seem to be” a hurting injured body.
Report Post »Don Logan
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:34pmYep, they need guns in the UK. On a completely unrelated note, homicide rates in America are 4 times higher in than in the UK, and firearm homicide rates are 40 times higher in America than in the UK. Obviously this is in no way connected to the availability of guns in the UK relative to America.
Report Post »blkold7
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:39pm@Don Logan
You might want to look at the size & population of the UK before you compare notes with the US. I believe you will find the US as being way much bigger & populated than the UK
Report Post »Don Logan
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:29am@ BLKOLD7 Those homicide rates are based on per 100,000 population, not on actual homicides in Amercia v actual homicides in the UK.
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:43pmA nice Glock would have done the job better then he could have not been put on the 3 hots and a cot list
Report Post »ForeignWatcher
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:47pmYepp, totally the moment to shoot a man in the back. I mean, come on, he was at least a very bad driver, suits him right!
Report Post »civilman43
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:42pmI prefer the Ruger9c nicer grip.
Report Post »flsnipe
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:43pmIf he had a gun Gun he could have just shot him and he would not have had to work so hard.
Report Post »ForeignWatcher
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:47pmAlways rember kids, shooting criminals in the back is better than working too hard!
Report Post »onegodinkansas
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:56pmYip. Lesson for today, children, don’t be a criminal.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:38pmthey forgot attempted murder of a peace officer, wow only 23 months, i guess we are seeing our future,old georege sorso and the commie left are trying to get prisoners released early and get them reduce sentences,and with soros money they have bought and pay for the judges to let this happen.
Report Post »spuggylips
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:49pmit goes both ways commonsenseguy, here in Ohio the new republicans (and democrats) gleefully passed a bill lowering sentencing on all “non violent” criminals, which includes drug dealers, meth addicts, crack addicts ( they lowered the sentencing for crack too) heroin addicts, thieves, drunken fools etc and now they are dragging their feet on making bath salts (the kind you buy at Arab stores, not for a bath at all) illegal. All of this to save Joe taxpayer about twelve bucks a year.
We will pay for it in the end, all of us who don’t live in gated communities anyways, regular working people.
Sorry blazers but this is the truth right here in Ohiyo.
Report Post »nannyatnannydotgov
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:28pmI pray that Americans are as dedicated to changing our current government social club into a lean, mean, fiscally responsible machine.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:27pmU.S. cops would not be able to run this guy down.Too many free donuts.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:38pmYeah, but they could at least shoot his a$$ with a gun.
Report Post »ForeignWatcher
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:46pmWhich would be the proper behaviour in the video we have seen? Pulling his gun and shooting the fleeing man to death? Thank god i live in europe…
Report Post »spuggylips
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:51pmmore hating on cops with donut jokes from 1989. Sometimes I think I‘m on a Sna Francisco Anarchist site the way y’all be hatin’ on the cops all the time. Fake azz conservatives.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:52pmForeignWatcher is the loser being chased by the PC in the video. He’s posting from the prison library, the poor eejit.
Report Post »onegodinkansas
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:58pmI’m glad ForeignWatcher is in Europe, too. Pantywaisted liberals who don’t arm their cops reaps you a summer camp massacre of unarmed Sheeple.
Report Post »Phantom Menace
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:00pmI’m glad you live in Europe too.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:18pmI never said death. Just “freeze or I’ll shoot!” disable him, by shooting him in the leg. He DID almost kill the cop with his car, or does that matter, Europe trash?
Report Post »The reason he thought he could run was that he KNEW the guy didn’t have a gun. They think twice about running in the states, or at least in some places they do. Places NOT like Europe.
BTW, I am 1/2 European, my mother was a military bride from Luxemburg.
Captain Crunch
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:38pmThe Blaze censors are working hard today. So let me rephrase what I said the first time. It sounds soke some of you are advocating police violence, police intimidation, etc, evn when it is absolutely uncalled for. Shooting a fleeing suspect in the back? Are you kidding me? SInce when does fleeing deserve a death sentence at the hands of the police? Seems to me some of you are receiving your police state training very well. You think police violence is justified just because they are the police. The perp in the film wasn’t trying to kill that cop. Looked like an accident to me. But reguardless, you would be right at home with the Preditor Cops in Canton Ohio by the way it sounds.
Report Post »ReallyAUnionGuy
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:16pm@CaptainCrunch …. There is a reason we have fleeing felon laws …….. I would much rather have a cop shoot a fleeing felon in the back than wait for him or her to make it to another person, an innocent person, and take that person hostage and escalate the situation jeopardizing the lives of innocent people who were just going about their day. Police Officers have no way of knowing what the suspect they are chasing is capable of. This “perp” has already demonstrated a disregard for others in pursuit of his own interest.
Report Post »It does not equate to “supporting” a police state to support cops doing their job. Real citizens, responsible citizens will not find themselves in these situations, because they are not criminals. We should be careful not attack the sheep dog because he looks like a wolf, they are are out there every day protecting the flock from the wolves, and a good sheep dog has characteristics similar to the wolf, thats why they are sheep dogs and not sheep. The difference is their motivation and their character.
That does not mean that their are not over zealous cops out there that cross the line, but then again they are not sheep dogs are they, they are wolves in sheep clothing.
In America we must stop attacking our protectors. When someone crosses the line into criminal behavior and it results in their death, thats their fault not the cops.
http://www.firefightersforfreedom.blogspot.com
let us prey
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:22pmOne tough s o b.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:36pmhey, they should put him on a beet farm.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:58pmcommon
Report Post »He would do very well on the beet farm wouldn’t he.
Servant Of YHVH
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:19pmTried to run down a cop and only got 23 months? No wonder this world has problems with crime and criminals. They either let them go free, give them a minimum sentence or put them in the White House or in Congress. What is this world coming to?
Report Post »John0397
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:22pmForgive me, but I don’t see an attempt of the driver to run down a cop, he struck the vehicle. The driver probably did not see the officer exiting the vehicle. Therefore you couldn’t show intent on harming the officer, thus no charges for assulting or attempting to kill the officer. Nice job by the officer to get back up and engage the suspect, he earned a pint that day.
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