Table 69
Law Enforcement Officers Accidentally Killed
Lighting and Weather/Environmental Conditions by Type of Accident, 2013–20171
| Conditions | Total |
Aircraft accident |
Drowning | Fall |
Firearm- related incident |
Motor vehicle crash |
Pedestrian officer struck by vehicle |
Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of victim officers | Total | 238 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 163 | 40 | 5 |
| Lighting | Artificial | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| Dark | 102 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 73 | 16 | 3 | |
| Dawn | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | |
| Daylight | 94 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 64 | 15 | 1 | |
| Dusk | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Not reported | 17 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 1 | |
| Weather/environmental | Blizzard | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Blowing dirt/sand/soil | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Clear | 159 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 114 | 27 | 2 | |
| Cloudy | 18 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 0 | |
| Flooding | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Fog/smog/smoke | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hurricane | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rain | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 0 | |
| Severe crosswinds | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sleet/hail | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Snow | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
| Tornado | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Other | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Not reported | 19 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 0 | |
| Not applicable (indoors) | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
- 1Ten years of data for the topics presented in this table are not available at this time. A 10-year table is expected to be available for the publication of 2020 data.
