new video exclusively obtained by mn
safety shows a police car urgently
responding to an emergency call but
losing control at a key moment
you'll see firsthand what happened how
it happened and we'll do some
investigative work to determine the
speeds involved
at the end of this video we'll show you
a police squad rollover that happened on
the same road just a few years ago a
quick visual reminder to all of us
that we all can drive a little safer
but first take a look as the spring lake
park police squad urgently responds to
an officer being attacked or in a fight
off highway 65 in the north twin cities
metro they're about to lose control of
their squad at a key moment
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that's the crash and more to see on that
in a moment but first just how fast were
they going well we can time how quickly
they traveled from one intersection to
the other and then use google earth to
figure out how far that is and finally
convert feet per second into miles per
hour doing that we get an estimate of
106 to 108 miles per hour as an average
speed
but only for that section of roadway
when they were traveling the fastest so
it's important to keep that in mind
as we get closer to the moment of the
collision you can see they started to
lose control as they went around the
black suv on their right thankfully they
were able to do significant braking over
an extended distance likely bringing
their speed to under 35 miles per hour
at the point of impact
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just
there's another one coming do we need to
get out make sure they're all okay just
pull in here i don't pull in here if
there's another one coming i don't see
another one but i don't see the officer
moving
call the cops mom i don't see him moving
what if you're a witness to something
like this one family recorded the scene
and they were kind of made fun of online
by mean people but i actually thought
they did an excellent job they had one
person video record while another family
member made the 911 call they exchanged
information between each other and
discussed the best things to do and
importantly they were careful not to
make assumptions that the scene was safe
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my car like locked up man
all right are you uh you're not injured
at all man
you're not injured at all
sorry
yeah we'll grab out here i'm trying to
find the insurance card
i gave him the one
this same roadway was the scene of
another police squad involved crash
which is only to say that these types of
high-speed arterial roadways basically
highways with stoplights can be
especially dangerous
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