Table 68
Law Enforcement Officers Accidentally Killed
Lighting and Weather/Environmental Conditions by Circumstance at Scene of Incident, 2006–2015
| Conditions | Total |
Automobile accident |
Motorcycle accident |
Aircraft accident |
Struck by vehicle |
Accidental shooting |
Drowning | Fall | Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of victim officers | Total | 577 | 338 | 54 | 17 | 93 | 27 | 9 | 12 | 27 |
| Lighting | Artificial | 77 | 44 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Dark | 227 | 153 | 4 | 5 | 37 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 9 | |
| Dawn/dusk | 23 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Daylight | 234 | 117 | 46 | 10 | 30 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 8 | |
| Dim | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Poor | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Not reported | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Weather/environmental | Clear | 392 | 228 | 43 | 13 | 64 | 20 | 6 | 7 | 11 |
| Cloudy/partly cloudy | 39 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Flooding | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Fog | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Freezing rain/hail | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Rain | 48 | 38 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Snow | 15 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Tornado | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Windy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Not reported | 60 | 35 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Not applicable (indoors) | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
