In some ways, handling a police car in hot pursuit is similar to handling a race car on a track, as this circa 1974 Sid Davis police training film shows. In other ways, it’s a lot similar to fishtailing on snow-covered roads. Who knew my youthful shenanigans on rural Central Ohio roads would have made me so well prepared to chase down baddies on the streets of L.A.!
* Brian Darwas has a new film coming out about Bonneville and the people who race there called “Three Mile.” Here’s the trailer.
* Finally, in a mashup similar to the recently shared The Art of the Car Chase, The Petrick pulled together a handful of the many many many Hollywood scenes in which a car falls off a cliff in the aptly named Car Falls Off a Cliff. (via)
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