At 4:00 today I was eastbound on 50, sitting at the red light at Fair Ridge Drive -- there were cars stopped headed in both directions and one car stopped on the westbound side, in the turn lane for Fair Ridge Drive. It was drizzling freezing rain and the road was wet. First, a cruiser with lights flashing pulls into the intersection from the left and turns on his siren half-way into the intersection. About ten seconds later I notice blue lights approaching from behind -- no siren. This cruiser hits his siren once he has entered the intersection. After about another ten or fifteen seconds I see blue lights behind me again with no siren. The car in the turn lane was beginning to make his turn through the intersection when this cruiser blasts through with no siren at all -- the car making the left turn never saw the cruiser coming because of the other vehicles stopped for the light blocking his view. He was able to stop just in time to avoid being T-boned by the cruiser the same way Ashley McIntosh was a couple of years ago. The weather and traffic conditions were eerily similar then to those of today, and the actions of the Fairfax County Police were identical -- lights on, no siren, driving too fast through a red light intersection with traffic.

Ashley died. Fairfax County police settled with her family for her murder. A law was passed in Virginia so this type of thing wouldn't happen again. The law is named "Ashley's Law." How many more laws named after people killed by Fairfax County Police are needed before the police take heed?

Fairfax County Police obviously doesn't care about what they did to Ashley and, as usual, do whatever they want to do -- legal or not.



About "Ashley's Law":

SB 762 (Puller) – Emergency vehicles; proceeding past red lights

Provides that emergency vehicles proceeding past any steady or flashing red signals, traffic lights, stop signs, or other devices indicating moving traffic shall stop, must flash emergency lights and either (i) sound a siren, exhaust whistle, or air horn designed to give automatically intermittent signals or (ii) yield right-of-way or, if required for safety, bring the vehicle to a complete stop before proceeding with due regard to the safety of persons and property.

If have ever ridden in an emergency vehicle, police or fire, you cant hear much of anything regarding radio traffic like updates on the situation, speed up, slow down, disregard. Everyone is an expert on the police thanks to TV but until you've done it, you dont have a clue. Likewise emergency workers dont sit outside your office, watch you and post anonymously on websites about what they think you did wrong today.

@bad boys

His point is its a law, and why are you defending someone breaking the law? If they didnt obey Ashley's law then THEY BROKE THE LAW. Emergency responders do great things, they have probably saved someone close to every person in this county, but regardless when laws are broken then laws are broken.

If a man who was rushing to get his wife to a hospital smashed into a person at a crosswalk and killed them, I dont think it will matter what his emergency was or if his intentions were pure and he was a good person. The law is reason free from passion; translation regardless of everything leading up to breaking a law, when you break it, you've broken the law. The punishment might be more lenient based on the circumstances, but that is for the judge to determine.

Regardless no one, not police, not the military, and not the president are above the law.

On a side note if you are an EMS thank you for the service you do, I know how much devotion you guys put into your jobs and I know it is frustrating when people only point out the bad and never notice the good.

Ashley's Law Wrote:
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> He was able to stop just in time to avoid being
> T-boned by the cruiser the same way Ashley
> McIntosh was a couple of years ago.

He must not have been coked out of his head like Ashley was and at least had his seatbelt on.

Wrong, but thanks Wrote:
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> @bad boys
>
> His point is its a law, and why are you defending
> someone breaking the law? If they didnt obey
> Ashley's law then THEY BROKE THE LAW. Emergency
> responders do great things, they have probably
> saved someone close to every person in this
> county, but regardless when laws are broken then
> laws are broken.
>
> If a man who was rushing to get his wife to a
> hospital smashed into a person at a crosswalk and
> killed them, I dont think it will matter what his
> emergency was or if his intentions were pure and
> he was a good person. The law is reason free from
> passion; translation regardless of everything
> leading up to breaking a law, when you break it,
> you've broken the law. The punishment might be
> more lenient based on the circumstances, but that
> is for the judge to determine.
>
> Regardless no one, not police, not the military,
> and not the president are above the law.
>
> On a side note if you are an EMS thank you for the
> service you do, I know how much devotion you guys
> put into your jobs and I know it is frustrating
> when people only point out the bad and never
> notice the good.


Why do people automatically assume an annon post by some random person about what a cop did or didnt do is correct?

For all we know the cop did everything right and the person couldnt hear because they were blasting their radio to loud or not paying attention. Unless you were there or some other evidence than some random post by someone who may or may not hate the cops shows it up, it shouldnt just be assumed that the story is 100 percent factually correct.

First OP, There are numbers on all county vehicles front, both sides, rear and really big ones on the roof, why dont you write them them down and report what you see as improper or unsafe to the proper authorities within the police dept where some change might actually be made to the offending persons behavior in the future. Instead you can post anonomously on here and rag on folks responding to something that would probably cause you to shit your pants if you were the one having to deal with it.
Ill do a redirect here, instead of ragging on the cops , firefighters and teachers all the time , who actually try to make the world a better place, lets get some threads going on the pencil necks and dickheads like lawyers, plumbers who charge too much, insurance salesmen , folks who get up everyday and look to put the screws to you. If you wish to complain and really affect a change, dont look to the basement dwellers on here to help you with that.

nope. dont care.

Fairfax cops care..very much. About donuts.