Charges are pending against a woman who was driving an SUV that collided with Officer Kevin Bowden's police car Thursday afternoon.
Bowden, 28, had finished his shift and was headed north on Branch Avenue when the collision occurred around 3 p.m. near the intersection of Surratts Road.
Prince George's County Police Chief Mark Magaw says the woman driver had originally been in the left turn lane and made a decision to cross several lanes of traffic - ultimately colliding with Bowden's cruiser which then crashed into a utility pole.
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What charges are pending?
And just becasue he died does not automatically make it her fault.
Seems high rates of speed and no seat belt are a deadly combination.
What really casued his death?
Was it from the impact of her SUV?
Was it from losing control of his car due to a high rate of speed?
Would he have lost control of the car had he not been speeding?
Would he have died had he followed the law and worn his seatbelt?
Did he swallow a peanut during hte accident?
Either way police are little more than jack booted tax collectors so one less in the world is no real concern to me.
someone should tell the police that seat belts and driving the speed limit saves lives.
Speeding and no seat belt, so it's her fault. Anyone driving a car knows that they are responsible for things that occur in front of them, including vehicles changing lanes and cross traffic. She should sue the PD for a new vehicle, plus punitive damages.
And Defamation of Character!
Yup, yup and yup.
Sorry PG county lost an officer though. They really need them there.
But, this is what happens when a good dose of overconfident hypocrisy is unleashed behind the wheel.
Pray for the family and forgive even the police for their sins
I have to wonder what the charges will actually be. Maybe unsafe lane change? Who knows. Was the accident entirely her fault. Who knows. There are so many unanswered questions. If the officer was going the correct speed limit could this have been avoided? If he was wearing a seat belt would it have mattered? Could it be that she couldn't judge the actual speed of the officer? Maybe she didn't see him. Maybe it was her fault. She could have been on the phone and not paying attention. I guess we will just have to wait and see.
Shame on you people, hopefully this will never happen to you or your family. What has happened to the compassion in this world? How can you all be so cruel?
Cruel is trying to pin his irresponsibility and negligence on her.
How can we be so cruel? I'll tell you why! He hit her from BEHIND! Her eyes are on the FRONT OF HER HEAD as well as his. HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS ACTIONS.
That's not cruel. The cruelty here is that she is getting blamed for the death of another who was CLEARLY at fault.
That's how.
Stop the take home police car rule.
It is her fault because he is a hero.
The statutory laws don't apply to police officers. They are judged under common law as established by the U.S. Constitution. The lady however is subject to the statutes of our leaders.
I witnessed a Prince Georges County cop deliberately pull into an intersection (about 5 feet or so), in order to have a car that ran a red light hit him. Now, a cop who has SURELY written ( to PROTECT us??) hundreds of seat belt tickets and speeding tickets gets killed because he wasn't wearing HIS seat belt and was speeding, too? Like I keep telling ya, the law is for the serfs. NOT the police. They are (and will tell you the same) ABOVE the law and answer to NO ONE, especially their BOSS, which is SUPPOSED to be us (we, the people). ANOTHER cop dead "in the line of duty". Riiiight.
I have to wonder what the charges will actually be. Maybe unsafe lane change? Who knows. Was the accident entirely her fault. Who knows. There are so many unanswered questions. If the officer was going the correct speed limit could this have been avoided? If he was wearing a seat belt would it have mattered? Could it be that she couldn't judge the actual speed of the officer? Maybe she didn't see him. Maybe it was her fault. She could have been on the phone and not paying attention. I guess we will just have to wait and see.
Joe thanks for taking what I wrote and re-writing it for me. Next time don't play editor for a supposedly open forum. You sir are a hipocrit. I wrote exactly what I wanted to say and I don;t appreciate or need you taking any kind of editorial license with my expression of thoughts.
Keep it up and you will loose a reader.
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