Originally posted by Red92784: Once they slow down the cops spike em' at a safe speed. If they are stubourn they drive on the rims for a while, but a car can only take so much. The car will make the decision for them. The car stops, cops swarm it, take the driver down, and save the passenger.
Lets say that everything went according to plan. The freeway was magically cleared, there were no bystanders cheering on the driver, the cops backed off knowing that there ware troopers with spike strips (I gave you two just so we know the tires will blowout) and just for fun, lets add a big roadblock to that so even if the spike strips dont work the truck is going to slam into (insert your favorite heavy objects here). The cops lay the spike strips, the do thier job and blowout all four tires on the Pathfinder. The SUV's tires deflate and the truck begins losing speed....
....the driver loses control and veers across the median slamming into oncoming traffic killing the SUV's occupants plus the occupants of multiple other vehicles because of the over 140 mph collision speed.
Everything worked but that one variable is a [censored] isnt it.
On a sidenote part of that situation just happened here. A car full of teenage boys was having a road rage incident with a minivan. The minivan hit the brakes, the driver hit his brakes and tried to steer around the van. His passenger, for some reason, decided that this would be a good time to pull the e-brake. The car spun out, cleared the median and killed a motorcyclist. So, just like the passenger in the SUV, the lives of the (relatively innocent) teenagers in that car are now ruined. And, as I just found out, the biker's obiturary is in todays paper. He left behind his wife, children and job as an EMT. So not only did the passenger's stupidity kill a person, it killed a person who was specifically trained to save peoples lives.
