Arkansas State Police officials say a trooper has retired after he crashed his vehicle into the wrong car during a pursuit.
The incident occurred Sunday on Interstate 40. At approximately 8:30 p.m., the trooper performed a Tactile Vehicle Intervention (TVI), also called a PIT maneuver, “in error” during a pursuit near Mile Marker 265.
Authorities said the trooper was chasing two vehicles traveling at speeds in excess of 100 mph.
One of the vehicles being chased was a white four-door sedan.
Unfortunately, the pursuing trooper mistakenly identified the crowd’s vehicle as the suspect’s car and performed a PIT maneuver, ramming the wrong car and stopping it.
Dashcam footage of the pursuit shows the trooper’s car traveling at high speeds on I-40 in pursuit of the suspect.
The trooper passed several cars before his vehicle approached the white sedan, which flashed its brake lights as the trooper approached.
But as the white sedan slowed, the trooper rammed his vehicle into the rear left side of the sedan, sending it flying onto the shoulder of the highway.
Both the driver and passenger in the stopped vehicle were uninjured and refused medical treatment, authorities said.
An Arkansas State Trooper performed a PIT maneuver to stop a fleeing vehicle on Sunday, but it was the wrong car, officials said. Arkansas Police Department
The PIT maneuver is a pursuit tactic used by law enforcement to stop a suspect in a fleeing vehicle. The maneuver involved the pursuing policeman using his car to hit the suspect’s vehicle on the side near the rear wheel, causing the vehicle in front to spin out of control and stop.
State police officials said trooper supervisors immediately began an internal review of the incident, which is ongoing. The military personnel involved in the crash, Cpl. Thomas Hubbard, has submitted his retirement letter and has been off duty since the incident.
The trooper’s PIT maneuver sent the white car flying onto the shoulder of Interstate 40. Officials said neither the driver nor the passenger were injured and they refused medical treatment at the scene. Arkansas Police Department
In 2021, an Arkansas woman sued state troopers who she said “negligently performed” a PIT maneuver that caused her car to overturn on the highway at 60 miles per hour in July 2020.
A FOX16 investigation that year revealed that the PIT maneuver was increasingly being used by the Arkansas State Police. Between January 2017 and December 2020, the PIT maneuver was used 306 times, with half of those occurring in 2020, according to local news outlets.
At least 30 people have died and hundreds more have been injured since 2016 as a result of the PIT movement, according to The Washington Post. Eighteen of the deaths occurred after police tried to pull someone over for speeding or other minor traffic violations.
Paul Best of Fox News contributed to this report.
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