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Our police chase injury lawyers have handled many cases involving the deaths of innocent civilians <\/a>due to police chasing suspects for minor crimes. We have previously written about police departments that have adopted restrictive policies limiting chases and decreasing the chances that innocent civilians and police officers can be seriously injured or killed.<\/p>\n

On May 30, 2007, in Forestville, Maryland, a police officer was chasing a motorcyclist for speeding. During the chase, the police officer tried to position his car to stop the speeding motorcyclist, but instead hit a civilian car that rolled down an embankment into oncoming traffic. This caused a seven car pile up injuring 15 and killing two innocent civilians. Among the injured were two police officers. The police car camera revealed that the officer was driving at times more than 120 m.p.h. as he drove onto the shoulder and back onto the highway.<\/p>\n

Today, the police officer, Scott Campbell, was indicted by a Grand Jury on two counts of vehicular manslaughter for the May 30th crash. The indictment charges that Campbell, started the chase in violation of department policy. The police department policy permits officers to engage in high speed pursuits only if there is probable cause that the suspect used or threatened physical force or is involved in a hit and run accident resulting in serious injury or death.<\/p>\n

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