Table 67
Law Enforcement Officers Accidentally Killed
Lighting and Weather/Environmental Conditions by Circumstance at Scene of Incident, 2016
| Conditions | Total |
Automobile accident |
Motorcycle accident |
Aircraft accident |
Struck by vehicle |
Accidental shooting |
Drowning | Fall | Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of victim officers | Total | 52 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Lighting | Artificial | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dark | 19 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dawn/dusk | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Daylight | 20 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Dim | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Poor | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Not reported | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Weather/environmental | Clear | 35 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Cloudy/partly cloudy | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flooding | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Snow | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Not reported | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Not applicable (indoors) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
