HUMBOLDT — This is part 11 of a 14-part series following Nina Froggatte’s journey through police training at the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center, Hutchinson.
Froggatte’s class focused on collision investigation last week using mock auto accidents from which the students diagramed the scenes.
Three types of collisions were staged.
“Hazardous material has to be handled a certain way, passengers have to be handled a different way and whether or not someone was a pedestrian versus somebody on a bike is handled differently,” Froggatte said.
Froggatte learned how to estimate a vehicle’s speed by examining the skid marks left behind.
Sketching diagrams to scale was a challenge, she said, but she shined out on the gun range, passing the test and earning her highest score to date.
Mock accidents aid in officer’s training
