Table 69
Law Enforcement Officers Accidentally Killed
Lighting and Weather Conditions by Type of Accident, 2015–20191
| Conditions | Total |
Aircraft accident |
Drowning | Fall |
Firearm- related incident |
Motor vehicle crash |
Pedestrian officer struck by vehicle |
Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of victim officers | Total | 236 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 156 | 50 | 4 |
| Lighting | Artificial | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 0 |
| Dark | 85 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 61 | 14 | 2 | |
| Dawn | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | |
| Daylight | 93 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 60 | 19 | 2 | |
| Dusk | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | |
| Unknown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Not reported | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 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 | 141 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 93 | 28 | 3 | |
| Cloudy/partly cloudy | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 0 | |
| Earthquake | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Fire/fog/smog/smoke | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |
| Flooding | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Freezing rain/hail/sleet | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hurricane | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Indoors (no adverse conditions) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rain | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 0 | |
| Severe crosswinds/high winds | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Snow | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |
| Tornado | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Other | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Unknown | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Not reported | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 0 | |
- 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.
