Editing Car chase (section)

== In other countries ==

=== Australia ===
{{Main article|Skye's Law}}
In Australia, Skye's Law is the name of a 2010 law in [[New South Wales]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Crimes Act 1900 No 40 |url=http://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/inforcepdf/1900-40.pdf?id=e0d77639-842e-6bf4-cfe7-c6647ceeeee9 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506101148/http://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/inforcepdf/1900-40.pdf?id=e0d77639-842e-6bf4-cfe7-c6647ceeeee9 |archive-date=May 6, 2012 |website=Legislation.nsw.gov.au}}</ref> It is named after a 19-month-old girl, Skye Sassine, who was killed on 31 December 2009 when her family's car was struck by a suspected armed robber who was trying to elude police.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2015-05-15 |title=Officer 'thought he was on a race track', but not to blame for toddler Skye's death |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-15/skyes-law-inquest-police-not-to-blame-for-collision/6472490 |access-date=2025-03-24 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}}</ref> The driver was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to at least 14 years in prison.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-05-25 |title=Driver jailed over toddler's 'senseless' death |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-25/driver-jailed-over-toddler27s-27senseless27-death/4033462 |access-date=2025-03-24 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}}</ref> 

=== Germany ===
In Germany, police will chase suspects unless, for example, the fugitive is passing through a densely populated city center. To reduce the risk to uninvolved road users, the chase may be stopped then and the police will attempt to identify and apprehend the perpetrator via other means.

Regulations for dealing with pursuits may be standardized state by state, but in principle, proportionality and the prevention of danger to life and limb take precedence over the interest of repression of crime. German police do not record the number of chases in any official police statistics, so there is little publicly known data on actual chases. However, in 2022 alone, there were 1,164 registered chases in [[North Rhine-Westphalia]];<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-19 |title=Fast 1.200 Verfolgungsjagden der NRW-Polizei im vergangenen Jahr |trans-title=Almost 1,200 chases by the NRW police last year |url=https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/landespolitik/verfolgungsjagden-nrw-polizei-100.html |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=www1.wdr.de |language=de}}</ref> there were 167 recorded in [[Hamburg]] in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 11, 2020 |title=Verfolgungsjaden in Hamburg |trans-title=Police Pursuits in Hamburg |url=https://www.buergerschaft-hh.de/parldok/dokument/73675/verfolgungsjagden_in_hamburg.pdf |access-date=March 24, 2025 |website=Bürgerschaft der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg}}</ref> Chases are frequently reported in the media.

=== United Kingdom ===
In the UK, an estimated 40 people per year die in road traffic incidents involving police, most of them following a chase.<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 September 2007 |title=IPCC publishes major study on police road traffic incidents |url=http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/news/pr180907_rti.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124022341/http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/news/pr180907_rti.htm |archive-date=January 24, 2009 |website=Independent Police Complaints Commission}}</ref>