Table 68
Law Enforcement Officers Accidentally Killed
Lighting and Weather/Environmental Conditions by Circumstance at Scene of Incident, 2007–2016
Conditions | Total |
Automobile accident |
Motorcycle accident |
Aircraft accident |
Struck by vehicle |
Accidental shooting |
Drowning | Fall | Other | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of victim officers | Total | 563 | 326 | 53 | 15 | 92 | 26 | 11 | 12 | 28 |
Lighting | Artificial | 67 | 36 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Dark | 224 | 154 | 3 | 5 | 34 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
Dawn/dusk | 25 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Daylight | 224 | 107 | 45 | 8 | 31 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 9 | |
Dim | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Poor | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Not reported | 15 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
Weather/environmental | Clear | 382 | 223 | 43 | 10 | 61 | 19 | 7 | 7 | 12 |
Cloudy/partly cloudy | 41 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
Flooding | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 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 | 43 | 35 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Snow | 14 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 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 | 58 | 32 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
Not applicable (indoors) | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 |