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We encourage you to send us stories & pictures of your loved one(s) killed or injured due to a police pursuit crash. Email Candy Priano at candypriano@kristieslaw.org.
Kristie’s Law and PursuitSAFETY.org will remember innocent bystanders killed or injured as a result of police pursuit crashes.
Source for States and Deadly Police Chases:
The Bureau of Justice Statistics is a division of the U.S. Department of Justice. For state data, the report used pursuit-related fatalities from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTA), which uses the Fatality Analysis Reporting System*, 1996–2015, released May 9, 2017.
*The Fatality Analysis Reporting System receives data on pursuit deaths at the discretion of law enforcement officials.
The number of violent crimes per 100,000 people in each state came from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2015 Uniform Crime Report.
The FBI reported in 2002: “The lack of a mandatory reporting system hampers attempts by NHTSA to track pursuit fatalities and results in the collection of as little as one-half of the actual data. Typically, only 90 percent of states report pursuit fatality data to NHTSA. By extrapolating the 5-year totals to include 100 percent reporting, calculations would show an average of 375 deaths per year. Even conservative estimates The reporting of pursuit fatalities is not mandatory and there is no government oversight.”