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OnStar, the unit behind General Motors' GPS-based in-vehicle security system, offers Stolen Vehicle Slowdown technology: An OnStar operator can send a signal to a vehicle, restricting its fuel and slowing it to 3-5 mph. The technology is available on about 1 million 2009 GM vehicles, OnStar spokesman Jim Kobus says. Another company, Virginia Beach-based StarChase, is field-testing its Pursuit Management System. It's a launcher on the front of a police car that fires projectiles that stick on a fleeing vehicle targeted by laser, enabling police to track it by GPS. The system, which has been tested by police in Columbus,...

Just moments ago, Fox News reported on a car chase where the suspect fled from the vehicle, and his baggy pants kept falling down. Also, and this is the best part, he is a big guy, and once hit by the taser, he drops like a rock. The financial reporter on Fox News afterward said that Taser stock actually went up after the video was played. I don't doubt it. I want one. I laughed and laughed at this guy. it's so good to see these idiots taken down.

Videos recorded by cameras in two Buffalo Grove squad cars show a U-Haul truck near the end of a wild police chase two years ago, veering from side to side in traffic and racing around street corners before a crash that killed a suburban teenager and injured two others.

2,240 police, 460 patrol cars, copter mobilized for car chase in Osaka Friday, January 25, 2008 at 03:01 EST OSAKA — Police on Thursday arrested a wanted man after a two-hour car chase that involved 2,240 officers, 460 police cars and one helicopter. Hirofumi Fukuda, 27, who had been wanted for assaulting police officers on Jan 21, was arrested after a chase through central Osaka. Around 11 a.m., police received an emergency call saying that a car was driving recklessly, ignoring traffic lights. When a patrol car approached the vehicle in question, it took off. Police were mobilized throughout the...

I just witnessed a car chase from the FOX helicopter feed around where I live. It was fast around Roscoe Blvd., Owensmouth Ave, De Soto Ave, etc. and ended on Topanga Blvd. where Chatsworth Park is near the hills. 12 police cars came by to stop it. Those were airborne videos. Note that this is near very dark. There is a ground video of men and women coming to the noise wondering WTF? I only take a lady to a beach in Ventura that makes hearts quiet.

Phoenix — Two helicopters collided in midair and crashed while covering a police pursuit in central Phoenix Friday afternoon, killing at least two people. Both helicopters were news choppers from local television stations.

This is a poll at the Michael Silence blog. Poll For Motor Maniacs

A Supreme Court ruling could decide how and when law enforcement can chase suspects: The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a case expected to lay down new rules about when and how law-enforcement officers can chase suspects and use their vehicles to stop them. At issue before the court is whether a Georgia police officer went too far when he rammed his vehicle into the car of a driver who refused to pull over for speeding. The car went down an embankment, and the crash left the 19-year-old driver paralyzed from the neck down. Civil liberties advocates...

Scores of criminals might have eluded immediate capture had a controversial new plan to limit Houston police vehicle chases been in effect in the past 18 months, department records show. Police Chief Harold Hurtt's proposal, set for a hearing Monday at City Hall, would restrict his officers from engaging in lengthy pursuits when a fleeing motorist's only known crime is a Class C misdemeanor, such as a traffic violation. That was the reason officers gave for almost half the chases recorded in the past year and a half. Yet when those chases ended and suspects were questioned, 40 percent said...

Car chase (mostly over) in Houston, Pasadena, Pearland.

The owner of an Andrews-area convenience store, accused of taking the law into his own hands after he witnessed an alleged gas drive off Wednesday, is charged with two counts of assault and battery with intent to kill. Dennis Cooper, 52, the owner of Cooper’s Six Mile Crossing Convenience Store allegedly chased and then fired shots at a vehicle after the driver reportedly drove off without paying for $28 worth of gas. According to an incident report, the ordeal began about 4:20 p.m. Wednesday when 18-year-old Joshua Jennings, of Gray Court, S.C., and 18-year-old Jacob Skelly, of Fountain Inn stopped...

had a gun to his head earlier, tossed gun.. may be connected to fatal shooting last night in Torrance

An immigrant smuggler was convicted Tuesday of causing the deaths of three passengers in a June 2003 crash while fleeing authorities. A jury deliberated for nearly six hours before finding Antonio Sanchez, 30, guilty on three counts of second-degree murder. Sanchez, a Mexican citizen, was retried for speeding away from the California Highway Patrol on state Route 78 near Borrego Springs, killing a woman and two men he was trying to smuggle into the country. He was originally convicted in March 2004 on similar charges and sentenced to 53 years to life in prison. But a state appellate court reversed...

Long Beach Police were attempting to serve a warrant on a kidnap suspect. Suspect fled in a mini-van and ended up on the Long Beach Freeway. Police stoped the car and have it sandwiched between two armored vehicles. Suspect is still in the car. Long Beach Freeway closed in both directions.

"labels GPS" to fight against the hit and run offences Los Angeles - the police force of Los Angeles will obtain a launcher of "étiquettes GPS" to track the motorists in hit and run offence. She thus hopes to reduce the risks incurred by her men at the time of track races at high speed. According to the chief of the police force of the city, William Bratton, the police cars of the Californian megalopolis will be equipped soon with launchers compressed-air, which will project adhesive "labels" on the vehicles of suspects taken in hunting. These "labels" contain a...

TX police in pursuit of Grey BMW on FReeway in Houston, TX.

spike strip took out his left rear, has been hauling butt on a rim for a few miles now.

Authorities say a disagreement over a frozen snack led a McComb teenager to fatally shoot his father and threaten his mother. Curtis McCray Jr., 16, was arrested and charged with murder last week after allegedly shooting Curtis McCray Sr. with a shotgun from about 20 feet away, the Pike County Sheriff's Department said. Investigator David Haywood said the shooting occurred after the teen was punished for being involved in a minor wreck, and the boy became enraged when his parents returned home eating Sno-Balls and there wasn't one for him. The teen then allegedly threatened his mother, Gloria, with the...

There was yet another interminable car chase in the streets of Los Angeles carried on every 24-hour news channel. Excepts of this eight-hour ball of excitement appeared on regular news programs. Everyone who saw none of this, please raise your hands. Hold on, you. Admit it. You did watch. I confess, so did I. This one was a white minivan that wandered over several freeways in downtown L.A. Several times the minivan came to a full stop in heavy traffic, while up to five police vehicles also stopped – 25 feet behind the van. Meanwhile, a police spokesman droned on...

When Weatherford police Lt. Ronnie Villarreal heard that officers were chasing a woman in a sport utility vehicle Wednesday evening, he went straight to the dispatch center for more information. A manager at the Catfish O'Harlie's restaurant had fled after police responded to a reported employee theft of money about 5:50 p.m., he was told. As Villarreal listened, the phone rang. The dispatcher answered, looked at Villarreal and said, "Sir, it's her." The surprised watch commander spent the next 45 minutes talking to the woman on her cellphone as she zigzagged through Tarrant County. She had one request: Stop chasing...

Fleeing Truck Crashes, Killing Six Sunday, October 17, 2004 Associated Press PHOENIX — A stolen truck filled with suspected illegal immigrants and speeding away from deputies rolled over at a busy intersection near an Army post Saturday, causing an 11-car crash that killed six people and seriously injured 15, sheriff's officials said. Passengers were thrown out of the truck bed as the truck hit a center median and began to spiral, hitting vehicles waiting at a turn lane, said Deputy Chief Randy Redmond of the Sierra Vista (search) Fire Department. Investigators think the truck was traveling at about 90 mph...

4 robbery suspects in the car in southern California

Yeehaw..... Car chase Looking live with Shep on FoxNews

<p>Roxanne S. Harrell pulled her 7-year-old daughter's body from her wrecked truck, lay down on the pavement, draped her daughter over herself and proclaimed, "Hallelujah."</p> <p>Law-enforcement authorities yesterday described it as the final scene in Harrell's alleged crusade to save all women and children from "the domination of the male race."</p>

Dump Truck Chase Ends in Crash Wild Truck Pursuit Phoenix, March 21 (AP) -- A crash ended a 40-minute police pursuit early today in Phoenix involving a dump truck. The truck was involved in two other accidents before it collided with a car at Bethany Home and Central, flipped on its side, clipped a traffic light and then slid to a stop. The truck driver got out and began to run. But a witness, Doug Click, chased him down with a small baseball bat and police officers quickly took him into custody. The truck driver was taken to a hospital,...