New Mexico Trooper Wrecks Cruiser During High Speed Pursuit

On January 6, 2018 near Clovis, New Mexico two New Mexico Department of Public Safety troopers were in pursuit of a white truck that was driving recklessly and at high speed. Although DPS' pursuit policy generally indicates that pursuits be discontinued when the fleeing driver's evasive actions put the public at elevated risk, in this pursuit the primary trooper was still hot on the truck's tail when its driver blew through a busy intersection, leaving the trooper without any safe options as he approached.... so he took the safest option he could find, and destroyed his cruiser.

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