Quakenbush v. Lackey

ON PETITION TO TRANSFER

KRAHULIK, Justice.

We grant transfer to arrest further expansion of the Tort Claims Act so-called “law enforcement immunity,” and decide that a police officer travelling to the scene of a crime is not immune from civil liability for driving in a negligent manner. Ind. Code Ann. § 34-4-16.5-3(7) (West Supp. 1992). In doing so, we abandon the dicta of our earlier decision in Tittle v. Mahan (1991), Ind., 582 N.E.2d 796, and overrule *1286our earlier decision in Seymour Nat’l. Bank v. State (1981), Ind., 422 N.E.2d 1223, modified on reh’g 428 N.E.2d 203.

Tricia B. Quakenbush,…