Cop car was empty. Trucker and passenger unhurt.
This was last week in Wyoming. They drove past warning signs telling commercial vehicles and RVs to stay off this stretch of highway because of wind conditions.
Phew!
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Drunk – wearing “I’m a drunk” t-shirt – arrested for driving drunk!
A New York man wearing a T-shirt declaring “I’m a drunk” is facing DWI charges after a collision with a police car.
Suffolk County police arrested 23-year-old Kevin Daly of Coram. They say he crashed into an officer’s vehicle at about 1:45 a.m. Thursday. The officer was treated for minor injuries.
Daly, who is unemployed, was wearing the T-shirt in a mug shot provided by police. It reads: “I’m not an alcoholic / I’m a drunk / Alcoholics go to meetings.”
He was ordered held on $10,000 bail at his arraignment and was issued several traffic summonses. He was represented by an attorney from Legal Aid, which has a policy of not commenting on pending cases.
Throw away the key. He’s a drunk and an idiot. Double the menace to the public.
New Ford Police Interceptor gets 25% better mileage
Disclaimer: I own enough Ford stock to buy the tyres
At private event for police fleet buyers in Las Vegas on Friday, Ford finally unveiled the replacement for its dinosaur-era Crown Victoria Police Interceptor. The car that Ford hopes will pick up the mantle (and 70 percent market share) of the Crown Vic is a heavily modified version of the new Taurus.
Traditionally, most police vehicles have been powered by brawny V8 engines. However, the Taurus is does not offer any V8 option. Instead Ford will offer two variants, one with a normally aspirated 3.5-liter V6 putting out 263 horsepower and the second using the 365 hp Ecoboost V6 from the Taurus SHO. The normally aspirated version is flex-fuel capable.
According to Ford, the new Taurus-based Police Interceptor will get 25 percent better fuel efficiency than the outgoing V8 Crown Vic while offering significantly better performance. If true, that should give police agencies a real incentive to opt for the Ford since it should come in with higher numbers than any of its competition. With cities everywhere facing tight budgets, anything that can reduce their operating costs will help.
I’ll second that. Plus, purpose-built police cars make all the difference in the world when it comes to durability and reliability.
The venerable Crown Vic outlasted any of the crap cop cars offered by General Motors in the past couple of decades. The Impalas you may see are frail – according to the coppers in my neck of the prairie. Year-end they’re re-introducing the Caprice, hopefully with brakes that work, this time. Chrysler sells copified Chargers which are juicy hardware for rookies looking to drag race on municipal fill-ups.
Along with the purpose-built and diesel-powered Carbon E7, the new Ford Taurus would be my only recommendation.
Eideard 