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PRESIDENTIAL MOTORCYCLE ESCORT CRASHES; ANOTHER OFFICER DIES

A police officer in President Bush's motorcade crashed his motorcycle and died Monday, August 27th. This story, though it happened on August 27th, deserves memorializing. Why? Because this is the second time in a year that this type of incident has occurred. A Honolulu police officer, Steve Favela, died in November when he and two other motorcycle officers crashed while part of a presidential motorcade traveling across Hickam Air Force Base. (Photo --- A Rio Rancho, New Mexico motorcycle officer receives emergency medical attention from two unidentified officers at the scene of a crash). 

We can only ask: How can a similar accident occur in such a short period of time? We know that wet roadways and rain were involved in the Honolulu accident, and that wreck involved three police motorcycles which collided. This accident appears to have been a one-vehicle accident. Rio Rancho Officer Germaine Casey, 40, crashed at the Albuquerque airport at a point where a road enters an underground parking garage, said Trish Hoffman, a spokeswoman for the Albuquerque Police Department. He was pronounced dead at an Albuquerque hospital. Bush had been headed to the airport after attending a fundraiser for Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M. The officer had been with the Rio Rancho Police Department since 2005 and worked with campus police at the University of New Mexico before that.

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UPDATE 11-26-06 - Steve Favela, 30, and two other officers crashed as the motorcade traveled across Hickam Air Force Base to meet troops for breakfast early Tuesday. Light rain had been falling, and some roads on the base were slick.
   Favela, who suffered internal injuries and had been in critical condition at The Queen's Medical Center, died Sunday. The other officers were treated at the medical center and released.

In a separate incident, a fourth solo motorcycle officer crashed and injured his wrist when attempting a U-turn on loose gravel while escorting the president last Monday night. He was treated and released.

   Also during the president's 16-hour stopover, a White House staff member (temporary chief of the White House Travel Office, according to other media reports, was hospitalized early Tuesday after being mugged by three assailants near Waikiki Beach.

Hey, Mr. President, Alo-o-o-o-oha!

11-21-06 - Honolulu --- President Bush's motorcade, taking the President to various stops in the Honolulu, Hawaii area, encountered some bad luck in the form of three motorcycle escort officers going down in a heavy rain. Initial reports said of the three officers down, one was listed as 'serious' and another 'critical'. (Photo above: Emergency officials and others attend to motorcycle officers injured in probable rain-caused motorcycle wreck. Photos themselves are pretty frightening. Might remind viewers of a certain age of some of the pandemonium following JFK shooting).

PRESIDENTIAL MOTORCADE MOTORCYCLE ESCORTS IN THREE-BIKE WRECK; INJURIES INITIALLY LISTED AS 'SERIOUS' AND 'CRITICAL'.

UPDATE 11-26-06 - Steve Favela, 30, and two other officers crashed as the motorcade traveled across Hickam Air Force Base to meet troops for breakfast early Tuesday. Light rain had been falling, and some roads on the base were slick.
   Favela, who suffered internal injuries and had been in critical condition at The Queen's Medical Center, died Sunday. The other officers were treated at the medical center and released.

In a separate incident, a fourth solo motorcycle officer crashed and injured his wrist when attempting a U-turn on loose gravel while escorting the president last Monday night. He was treated and released.

   Also during the president's 16-hour stopover, a White House staff member (temporary chief of the White House Travel Office, according to other media reports, was hospitalized early Tuesday after being mugged by three assailants near Waikiki Beach.

Hey, Mr. President, Alo-o-o-o-oha!

11-21-06 - Honolulu --- President Bush's motorcade, taking the President to various stops in the Honolulu, Hawaii area, encountered some bad luck in the form of three motorcycle escort officers going down in a heavy rain. Initial reports said of the three officers down, one was listed as 'serious' and another 'critical'. (Photo above: Emergency officials and others attend to motorcycle officers injured in probable rain-caused motorcycle wreck. Photos themselves are pretty frightening. Might remind viewers of a certain age of some of the pandemonium following JFK shooting).