Green Bay police officer writing a ticket escapes serious injury when passing car crashes into his motorcycle

Green BAY – Sgt. Sean Hamill of the Environmentally friendly Bay Police Department’s Bike Unit failed to get a fantastic seem at the auto that almost flattened him April 19. He was too hectic diving out of the way.

Hamill spoke about his expertise Tuesday to persuade motorists to exercise risk-free driving behavior this spring, at a time of year when the numbers of motorists on the street improves as individuals head out in search of warm-weather fun.

“Do not get so centered on looking at your GPS or your telephone” that you fail to remember there are other hazards on the streets, Hamill claimed.

Hamill experienced taken his section-issued motorbike out final 7 days to implement Wisconsin’s seat belt legislation. He was between a selection of officers on Inexperienced Bay-space roads performing seat belt enforcement — a application identified as Click on It or Ticket mainly because officers hope obtaining a ticket will remind motorists to “simply click it,” or buckle their seat belts.

He was underneath a bridge that carries Interstate 41 visitors more than a floor road just west of the city, getting into information and facts into a moveable computer system when his reminder about currently being conscious of hazards in traffic arrived. Anyone driving a passing vehicle knocked over the motorbike, narrowly skipped the sedan that Hamill had pulled in excess of, and remaining the scene.

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Hamill suffered small injuries although diving absent from the oncoming vehicle — on to concrete — but acknowledged Tuesday “it could have been a whole large amount worse.” He’s back in uniform and was on responsibility Tuesday.

The driver who crashed into Hamill’s motorcycle was ticketed on expenses of strike and operate creating injuries, inattentive driving and functioning without a legitimate license. Another person, likely the driver Hamill had stopped, acquired the license plate quantity police uncovered the driver “a limited time afterwards,” Capt. Ben Allen mentioned in an e-mail.

Call Doug Schneider at (920) 431-8333, or [email protected]. Abide by him on Twitter at @PGDougSchneider.

This posting originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: Driver runs in excess of Green Bay police bike as officer issues ticket