How does one knows where to go once the sourcing car is completely out of sight?
The car he was chasing wasn’t too far away, he was just also going 140-150mph with the cop mostly just keeping up. It’s pretty hard to see him on the dashcam but you can see him come clearly into view around 5:15, as he has to slow down to take the exit, and then the cop follows and you can see the car blow the stop sign and then accelerate away while the cop’s still on the on-ramp.
Honestly, IDK how many out of 10 he should get for regard for public safety, but TFC Darryle Hinton gets 11/10 for driving skill.
Yeah, it’s tough to judge based on video, I’m sure alot of those decisions were alot easier to make with human eyes. The lights, sirens and training are supposed to be more effective at reducing the danger of this type of driving. But obviously in practice it’s a bit more complicated than what “should” happen.
At the very least, the pursuing officer has alot of advantage. Not always enough, but hard to really get much more of an advantage. High speed chases just are risky, and unfortunately, the best outcome is not as common as we would like. Any solutions that reduce risk and increase positive results are considerably more expensive. As much as less risk to human life is worth any price, it’s much harder to convince the people that are paying, until they are on the receiving end of the risk.
With significantly more video resolution, we’d probably be able to see the other car for most of the video, rather than a glimpse here and there. He never really got very far ahead. Even HD resolution is pretty lacking compared to human eye at the distances involved.
Plus, this is a video where the other driver didn’t get away, that’s not how they all end. Actually unfortunately the ending where everyone ends up safe and no one gets away is probably the least common ending for high speed chases. But certainly the most satisfying from our perspective. But yeah, since this video is a success that means any guesses made when light on info ended up being correct. There were probably a few times during the chase where decisions had to be made without enough info. Could probably have ended differently, but then it wouldn’t have been posted since the video wouldn’t be worth watching.
Thanks! I couldn’t see any glimpse at all sometimes!
Holy shit that cop is fast on the roads in the beginning, I don’t see how he could have stopped in time there if e.g. a pedestrian was walking along the road. I don’t know if that’s worth it…
A pedestrian would usually either hear the siren or see the lights. Plus keep in mind it’s about 10x easier to see detail in real life than in this video. But yes, high speed chases are still incredibly dangerous with everything we can possibly do to mitigate risk.
But it’s already way too common to evade a police chase, if high speed chases were not an option, that would just be the obvious choice for avoiding police. It’s already way too common for criminals in vehicles to resort to it with the current “sucess” rate, versus the also high potential for catastrophic results.
The way forward is not easy, they can’t ignore them, but they also try not to put so much pressure on them that they get too reckless. A surprising percentage of people manage to talk themselves out of the high speed chase once they see that they can’t get away. Although only surprising because we see those results in videos way less often than they occur, because they are less “entertaining”. It’s still unfortunately less common than we’d like, just more common than you might initially assume.
Yeah, agreed. Obviously, conducting this kind of high speed chase puts members of the public at risk (what if one of those cars he was passing on the shoulder at 150mph just happened to pick that moment to cut right thinking they were getting out of his way?), but also obviously, making a habit of letting people go just because they hit the gas also puts members of the public at risk. There’s not an easy answer I don’t think.
