Police officer hit by car in Richmond
 

honger c-lais i tell you

Hahaha where else would this have happened?

karma for setting up speed trap

bet his radar gun didnt see that coming

i can only imagine how badly the 2nd driver is going to get raped by ICBC

why was the VPD in richmond?

okay this reminds me - the police seriously need to stop jumping out in front of cars to wave people over. it's frickin dangerous as hell and eventually somebody's gonna get hit. it wasn't mentioned in the article, but i wouldn't be surprised if that's what happened here.

thanks, that would explain why I see New West police in Richmond sometimes

Yeah it's retarded... and when it's raining, dark, and foggy in the winter - it takes just one lapse in attention to miss their "wave". Hell they don't even use lit batons (those orange lightsabres)!

lol i was driving by on the opposite side! i was wondering what happened...

4:30 pm? it's either get home fast and cook, or take a beating.

LOL, i can so imagine it being a X5

Agreed! And this officer wasn't even hit by the vehicle that he flagged down (who saw him fully, BTW)...it was the vehicle behind that caused the hit.

nonono, its gotta be a b-class, or a rolla

What the hell could be coming at me at 80 kilometers per-OHHHH SHIIIIII

This reminds me, one time a cop on Granville street radared me going over the speed limit at 65-68 km/h and suddenly jumped out to try and flag me down. The officer was barely visible and by time he/she tried to jump out flag me I would've had to slam on my brakes to actually stop and cause a rear fender bender accident (I was ahead leading a flow of traffic). In a split second, I just pretended I didn't see them and just kept going and turned at the first side street and zigzagged around the inside city blocks so they wouldn't catch me LOL.

LOL c-lai

Youre a goof

those cop go to middle of the road and flag down a car travelling 70Km/hr + car... shit is gonna go wrong once awhile

those cops usually jump out and scared the shit out of the driver lol

had it happen to me, cop caught me doing 60 in a 50 zone and he popped out to stop me, it caught me off guard, at first i thought it was some junkie or bum, i was about to do some evasive maneuvering before i realized it was a cop.

Let's jump out in front of cars knowing full well they are going above the speed limit. Morons.

You guys are cold blooded, but funny none the less!

Agree, they do that when it's foggy, raining, or sometimes in the dark too! I must admit that in my younger days, I actually thought it was a bum trying to attack/rob me... instincts made me hard brake and make a quick right hand turn. It wasn't until after I made that turn that I realized it was an officer. Let's just say I didn't want to see him afterwards.

so the violator is off the hook?
only the car who struck the cop gets fined?

i went to richmond today after like 8 months and almost got in a accident 4 times -____-

I agree 100%, I see that this all the time at Rupert and 1st, at the Petro-Canada gas station. Usually one cop sits at the entrance of Petro to catch the cars that come out of the bus only lane onto Rupert. Since that part of Rupert is the highway offramp people coming off the hwy come down at like 70kms, and most of the time the cars coming out of the bus lane are trying to cross from the right lane to the left turn lane. SO the cop has to dodge traffic and flag the car which is now in the left turn lane. There was one time this fat cop was trying to get this Prius and almost go smoked by a f150... Also cops radar right under the grandview hwy overpass on hwy 1 which is dangerous as hell

ALSO

Integrated Road Safety Unit - IRSU

The Integrated Road Safety Unit, more commonly known as IRSU, was formed in 2004 and is made up of 110 traffic enforcement officers from the RCMP and Municipal Police agencies across the Province.

IRSU’s mandate;

- Harm reduction on BC roadways
- Conduct strategic traffic enforcement in high collision areas in order to reduce the number of serious injury and fatal collisions on BC roads
- Focus on seatbelt compliance, aggressive driving and impaired drivers – the three factors that contribute to most of the carnage on our roads (impaired driving is still the #1 criminal cause of death in Canada)
- Commercial Vehicle Enforcement
- Criminal Interdiction
- Assist Municipal and Provincial traffic enforcement units with strategic traffic enforcement operations