{"id":567198,"date":"2026-04-06T04:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/567198\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:16:11","slug":"deadly-police-chases-claim-8-lives-united-states-in-under-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/567198\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly police chases claim 8 lives United States in under a week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Troy: A series of police pursuits have led to at least eight deaths around the country in less than a week amid ongoing calls from some law enforcement experts to curb risky high speed car chases.<\/p>\n

In Texas, a man fleeing from police died Sunday, April 5. In Alabama, four people died when a car being pursued by a state trooper went off a road and hit a tree Friday, April 3. And in California, three people were killed in vehicle crashes during police pursuits in separate incidents last week.<\/p>\n

The deadly incidents are among the hundreds of fatalities that occur during police chases each year.<\/p>\n

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In 2023, a report from the Police Executive Research Forum, a national think tank on policing standards, called for police to put the brakes on car chases unless a violent crime has been committed and the suspect poses an imminent threat.<\/p>\n

The report noted a spike in fatalities and an increase in pursuits by some departments, including in Houston and New York City.<\/p>\n

In the case in Alabama, a driver was trying to elude the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency\u2019s highway patrol on a rural road in southeast Alabama\u2019s Pike County when the crash occurred late Friday night, agency spokeswoman Amanda Wasden said in an email Sunday. No other vehicles were involved.<\/p>\n

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The driver and two passengers, one of them a 17-year-old, were not wearing seat belts and were thrown from the sedan. A third passenger was not ejected, but all four were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

Wasden said the crash was under investigation, and no additional information was available. Her email did not say what prompted the pursuit.<\/p>\n

In Fort Worth, Texas, police had been pursuing a car which had been driving without headlights on Interstate 35 when the car hit multiple other vehicles and eventually crashed, killing the driver, according to the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n

In southern California, the Pomona Police Department said in a statement that its officers were pursuing a fleeing domestic violence suspect Wednesday when his car hit another vehicle, killing the couple inside. The two were days away from the birth of their child, according to KCBS-TV.<\/p>\n

In another case, the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Department said that deputies had attempted to stop a stolen U-Haul truck before it slammed into an SUV, killing the SUV\u2019s driver and critically injuring her three passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy: A series of police pursuits have led to at least eight deaths around the country in less…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5183,23,2356,47080,3,1022,21,19,22,20,25,250613,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-567198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-alabama","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-car-accident","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-us-police","20":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}