More High Speed Pursuit News
In Philadelphia this fall, two officers, in unrelated police pursuits, were killed in collisions.
In September, a high speed pursuit left Officer Isabel Nazario dead and Officer Terry Tull seriously injured. While pursuing a joyriding teenager (possibly dui related), police T-boned their cruiser in Mantua.
Just last month, Sgt. Timothy Simpson died when a man trying to elude police broadsided Simpson’s cruiser in Port Richmond. Someoen is going to need a good lawyer for that one. The price of tragedy can be marked sometimes, not only in money and the loss of life but in the loss of potential life.
Darnell Bennett was fourteen years old when a Yeadon man fleeing police on a red Honda motorcycle, hit him on May 15, 2003. Bennett was walking home from school when McDuffy struck him causing permanent brain-damaged and crippled. At the deposition and in an interview last week, McDuffy first caught his attention at Bouvier Street and 66th Avenue, where Sweeny, a five-year veteran, was patrolling what he described as a “well-known drug location.”
Sweeney testified at the deposition that he believed that the motorcycle had been stolen, although he couldn’t specify why. And although McDuffy wasn’t speeding, Officer Sweeney reports that he was “driving in circles” and wasn’t wearing a helmet, which then was illegal. As reported in the previous article The countrywide average of people killed by police pursuits per day was 368 last year (Fatal Analysis Reporting System). Some cities like Seattle and Los Angeles have very bad numbers in this regard. many of these incidents are dui related.
After the collision, Darnell Bennett spent a month in a coma. After he came out of the coma, he spent an entire year recovering from broken bones and head trauma in area hospitals and rehabilitation centers. By the way if you live in Seattle and need a superb Seattle dui lawyer then I would like to recommend the offices of Blair/Kim as they are among the top Seattle dui lawyer you can find.
Bennett has had multiple surgeries and ongoing physical therapy to improve his mobility, Currently he uses a cane to get around, but he falls so much that his neurologist predicts he’ll eventually have to use a wheelchair
