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Local cyclists' plight recieves a larger audience
Jesse Soloranzo (a cyclist mentioned in an earlier story) is getting a much wider audience for his plea for witnesses to a car-on-bicycle collision he was involved in which injured him and sent him to the hospital, thanks to KEYE TV.
Katherine Stolp looked into this issue and discovered that though the police didn't write an incident report, they felt that they followed procedure. The story speaks with a representative from the APD as well as Jesse and his lawyer, who originally sent out the alert. Thanks for covering this y'all!
OK, now that I've seen this reaction from APD on kvue, I think the police officers involved in this incident are nuts:
“The injuries received were accidental injuries,” Corporal Scott Perry said.
According to policy, the officers didn't have to write an accident report.
“If the officers had information that the car struck somebody at that time, then they would have obtained more information from the scene,” Perry said. “But they made the determination it was an accidental injury.”
You don't have to have a car hit someone for there to be an accident report or some kind of incident report filed. What if a car ran a red light and a driver with the green swerved and hit a telephone pole? Regardless of what happened, if there was a driver involved in an incident that required an ambulance/police response, they should have taken down the information and gotten witness statements.
LOBV will now be following up on this as well.
Yeah, when cars are involved judgment calls about the level of "incidental/accidental" damages are made by the INSURANCE ADJUSTERS, not cops. The cops job is this case is to make sure all the data is gathered so that the PROPER authorities can make a call on who's at fault, not the cops. Thanks for looking into this further, Rob.