Originally Posted by PhillyRag
While the pit was good with no major injuries, the speeds of that truck should have terminated the chase at many points.
Wonder what the offense was for chase?


Neither attempt to PIT the truck was really very good, they were more of a straight ram from the back. A good PIT hits the rear side behind the rear wheel and accelerates until the vehicle is out of control. There's a study from the Federal Law Enforcement Trailing Center that shows it's much harder to PIT a modern vehicle with Electronic Stability Control and requires more steering input, acceleration, and braking than with older vehicles. Also it notes that many manufacturers program the brake lights to come on when ESC is activated, even if the brake pedal isn't depressed. You can see this with the truck in the video.

If you watch On Patrol live or troll YouTube for dash-cam videos, you see that often, officers tap the rear 1/4 then brake instead of accelerating through, and ESC lets the fleeing driver regain control. In this case it looks like the officer got under the back of the truck and pushed until the driver lost control; luckily it went off the shoulder instead of into oncoming traffic...