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Table 68

Law Enforcement Officers Accidentally Killed

Lighting and Weather Conditions by Type of Accident, 2019

Conditions Total Aircraft
accident 		Drowning Fall Firearm-
related
incident 		Motor
vehicle
crash 		Pedestrian
officer
struck by vehicle 		Other
Number of victim officers Total 41 0 2 0 3 19 16 1
Lighting Artificial 10 0 0 0 2 5 3 0
Dark 10 0 1 0 1 5 3 0
Dawn 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Daylight 15 0 0 0 0 7 7 1
Dusk 4 0 1 0 0 0 3 0
Not reported 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Weather/environmental Blizzard 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Blowing dirt/sand/soil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Clear 25 0 1 0 2 14 8 0
Cloudy/partly cloudy 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Earthquake 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fire/fog/smog/smoke 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Flooding 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Freezing rain/hail/sleet 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hurricane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indoors (no adverse conditions) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rain 4 0 0 0 0 1 3 0
Severe crosswinds/high winds 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Snow 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 1
Tornado 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Not reported 5 0 1 0 0 2 2 0