Table 69
Law Enforcement Officers Accidentally Killed
Lighting and Weather/Environmental Conditions by Type of Accident, 2014–20181
| Conditions | Total |
Aircraft accident |
Drowning | Fall |
Firearm- related incident |
Motor vehicle crash |
Pedestrian officer struck by vehicle |
Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of victim officers | Total | 241 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 171 | 40 | 5 |
| Lighting | Artificial | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| Dark | 92 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 70 | 13 | 1 | |
| Dawn | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 | |
| Daylight | 95 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 68 | 14 | 1 | |
| Dusk | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Unknown | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Not reported | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 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 | 147 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 108 | 24 | 1 | |
| Cloudy | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 0 | |
| Flooding | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Fog/smog/smoke | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |
| Hurricane | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rain | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 5 | 0 | |
| Severe crosswinds | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sleet/hail | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Snow | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| Tornado | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Other | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Unknown | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Not reported | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 2 | |
| Not applicable (indoors) | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 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.
