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On Saturday afternoon, a Tipp City police officer, narrowly escaped serious injury when his parked cruiser was rear-ended, by a speeding vehicle. Officer Marc Basye, was out of the patrol car at the time of the incident. He was interrogating a suspect, who could have possibly been involved in the hit and skip accident, which had occurred just a short distance away. The rear ended accident, took place at about 1.30 p.m. near a traffic stop that was located on County Road 25-A bridge over Interstate 75 in Tipp City. A speeding pickup truck simply slammed into the rear end of the cruiser. Miami County deputies, who had handled crash, said that, “the driver of the truck was not paying attention when he bounced off the left rear quarter panel of the cruiser. ”The truck driver was cited by deputies for a clear distance violation. Fortunately, there were no injuries in either mishap. Terry Reid, the owner of the National Defensive Driver Training in Guelph, recently said that, “I believe ther...

The very first signs of heavy snow caused many Ontario drivers to slide,slip and slam into ditches or other motorists. However, tire dealers, defensive driving trainers and law enforcement officials are saying that, “there is really no legitimate reason why winter should bring motoring bedlam.” In other words, these professionals are now saying that,there are in fact, certain tried and tested ways, that in turn can prevent drivers from becoming part of the accident statistic. Gurdip Atwal,the owner of a defensive driving training center in Guelph and Cambridge said that,“The major problem with drivers in general is they don’t adjust to driving conditions”. He further went go to state that,“They think they are still driving in the summer. Those habits are hard to change quickly, and that is a major contributing factor in collisions whenever there is a first snow.” Whereas,the owner of the National Defensive Driver Training in Guelph, Terry Reid, said that,“I believe there were over 200 ...