WHAT HAPPEND TO THE POLICE OFFICER?

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He was outside the car when it got hit during a roadblock for a high speed chase. He ended up getting hit by his own car, though, and sustained a broken hip/leg.

Those new LED light bars that the OHP has are awsome.... especially at night. You can see them from a LONG way off. The motorist that misses these is just plain blind. The Oklahoma County Sheriffs Department has a few units with these as well.

I attended the the Oklahoma City municipal vehicle auction to bid on one of several retired detectives cars that were being sold, and the Ford 350 box van you have pictured here was on the auction line as well. It was used for the OCPD SWAT team. I didn't stick around long enough to see what it sold for, but it was still in pretty decent condition.

Man, this is a wreck. Was anyone killed? "Ray"

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I seem to remember being told that he was okay. They use this Camaro to push the advantages of wearing seat belts.

Dave

I work just a short distance from the Oklahoma Department of Public Safty where these photos were taken. This facility houses the main offices for the ODPS and OHP as well as training and vehicle maintainance facilities. Every so often, I take a drive through the facility to see what might be in the OHP auction line as well as any new equipment that might be there. Believe it or not, the OHP still has a small handfull of these LT1 Caprice's on the road, both in marked and unmarked form. A telltale sign that the Caprice pictured above was being readied for the auction line is the absence of the licence tag. A treatment that most all OHP cars receive when they're taken out of service, and in the case of the black and whites, the license plates are white with black letters and display the unit number, so naturaly the tag can't go with the car when sold. The Crown Vics sitting on the grass in the background are more than likely receiving the same treatment. A few of the troopers that I've talked to, as well as some police officers that have driven them, say they miss those LT1's. You could't tear them up and they were brutally fast.
So goes the saying..."Old police cars never die...they just become TAXIS!"