OT: A few weeks back, a 28-year-old officer here in Las Vegas was killed in a car accident with a drunk driver while he was on his way to respond to a domestic violence call.

At least that was the story we kept hearing on the local news. So far, about the only thing that’s still as it was originally reported is that the officer was responding to a domestic violence call.

1) The driver who hit the officer had been drinking, but didn’t have a high enough BAC to be considered legally drunk. He was released later on the day of the accident.

2) Police cars here is Las Vegas are not allowed to exceed 90 MPH. According to the police car’s equivalent of the “black box”, he was going 109 MPH at the time of the accident. The black box also showed 2 other interesting things.

3) The police car’s lights and sirens has not been turned on at the time of the accident.

4) Even if he had been going 90 MPH with his lights and sirens on, he’d most likely still be dead as a result of the accident, because … wait for it … he wasn’t wearing his seat belt!