Post by Logan on Apr 26, 2016 0:02:26 GMT -6
Glendale paid nearly $3.8 million earlier this year to settle four lawsuits stemming from a fatal multi-vehicle collision started by a police officer, according to records obtained by The Arizona Republic.
Glendale fired the officer, but not for speeding and entering an intersection on yellow light, which led to a chain reaction that left one woman dead and two men injured on Nov. 30, 2013. Police Chief Debbie Black suspended him for 10 weeks without pay and placed him on probation for eight months for that.
She fired Officer Cody Howard on June 5, 2015, for speeding and running a red light on another call 18 months after the fatal accident.
Police car hits minivan
Police investigation records obtained through public records requests paint a picture of the multi-vehicle collision Howard started on Nov. 30, 2013.
Howard, a five-year veteran on the police force, was responding to a non-emergency trespassing call that Saturday afternoon.
Read more: www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/glendale/2016/04/22/glendale-officers-deadly-crash-costs-city-38-million/81481580/
The amounts that Glendale spent to resolve all of the various liability suits was reasonable based upon the injuries that were caused in the accident. The officer committed gross negligence by not turning on his warning lights and traveling at an unsafe speed when there was no actual emergency involved.
Glendale fired the officer, but not for speeding and entering an intersection on yellow light, which led to a chain reaction that left one woman dead and two men injured on Nov. 30, 2013. Police Chief Debbie Black suspended him for 10 weeks without pay and placed him on probation for eight months for that.
She fired Officer Cody Howard on June 5, 2015, for speeding and running a red light on another call 18 months after the fatal accident.
Police car hits minivan
Police investigation records obtained through public records requests paint a picture of the multi-vehicle collision Howard started on Nov. 30, 2013.
Howard, a five-year veteran on the police force, was responding to a non-emergency trespassing call that Saturday afternoon.
Read more: www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/glendale/2016/04/22/glendale-officers-deadly-crash-costs-city-38-million/81481580/
The amounts that Glendale spent to resolve all of the various liability suits was reasonable based upon the injuries that were caused in the accident. The officer committed gross negligence by not turning on his warning lights and traveling at an unsafe speed when there was no actual emergency involved.