By Dan Mannarino, PIX11
Police pursuits are fast, erratic and deadly. While they may be entertaining and full of suspense to watch on television, they have resulted in 11,500 deaths since 1979 — and more than 5,000 of those deaths were innocent bystanders, caught in the wrong place and the wrong time.
“Statistically, there is more than one person being killed because of high speed chases every single day across America,” said Trevor Fischbach, CEO of StarChase, which created new technology that remotely tags a fleeing driver’s car with a GPS device so police don’t have to continue a dangerous chase.
Just before the Thanksgiving holiday, police in New Jersey were involved in a high-speed pursuit taking them to speeds upwards of 100 miles per hour. Luckily no one was injured after the driver was caught in New Jersey Turnpike traffic and was arrested.
Read more at: http://pix11.com/2015/12/03/new-tech-lets-officers-track-fleeing-drivers-while-cutting-down-on-public-danger/