Table 68
Law Enforcement Officers Accidentally Killed
Lighting and Weather/Environmental Conditions by Type of Accident, 2018
Conditions | Total |
Aircraft accident |
Drowning | Fall |
Firearm- related incident |
Motor vehicle crash |
Pedestrian officer struck by vehicle |
Other | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of victim officers | Total | 51 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 34 | 9 | 2 |
Lighting | Artificial | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
Dark | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | |
Dawn | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
Daylight | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 0 | |
Dusk | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Not reported | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | |
Weather/environmental | Blizzard | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Blowing dirt/sand/soil | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Clear | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 0 | |
Cloudy | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | |
Flooding | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Fog/smog/smoke | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Hurricane | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Rain | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | |
Severe crosswinds | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Sleet/hail | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Snow | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Tornado | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Other | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Not reported | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | |
Not applicable (indoors) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |