Posted on 10/22/2020 10:04:50 AM PDT by lowbridge
The brake line of a New York City police vehicle involved in an accident earlier this month was cut, authorities said.
Police learned about the suspected sabotage nearly two weeks after the Oct. 7 accident in which two officers assigned to the NYPD's Transit District 20 rear-ended a car at a red light in Queens, an NYPD spokeswoman told Fox News.
The officers were driving near Queens Boulevard and Union Turnpike when the vehicle's brakes failed, and it hit another vehicle at slow speed.
There were minor injuries and the police car was taken to be repaired.
A mechanic noticed that the brake line had been intentionally cut, the spokeswoman said.
The damaged brake line was on the front driver's side. Investigators are not sure when it was cut or where the patrol car was parked when the sabotage occurred.
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I hope they use every resource the NYPD has to look at every video feed from everywhere this car was parked until they find the perp. Then charge him with as many counts of attempted first degree murder as there are seats in that car.
And as many people were on the street during the time they drove that car on those streets.
Excellent point.
Poor situational awareness by the officer. They install emergency brakes for back up.
True. But if the emergency brake is like most peoples’ the cable is rusted solid because it’s never used.
As far as I know the only cut to a brakeline, outside of Hollywood, that wouldn’t be immediately noticibly the first time you hit the brakes would be a very precise measured partial cut that would blow out at a certain pressure.
"Emergency" brakes might have helped during an emergency brake failure when the average car was a 20hp Ford Model T that had a top speed of 40-45MPH and the average road speed was 15 MPH.
I have driven cars with manual transmissions for most of my life and so I always use the parking brake (which is what it should be called) when I park. It's pretty much useless to stop the car when it's moving, other than to keep it from rolling on a level surface.
A lot of modern parking brakes are electronic now, and I’m not even sure the computer would let you engage it if detected you weren’t in PARK.
Simply downshift the automatic to slow if necessary and firmly apply the parking brake. It works on every vehicle I have ever owned, even newer models.
That’s attempted murder
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