Fielder v. Jenkins

The opinion of the court was delivered by

PRESSLER, P.J.A.D.

This appeal on leave granted requires us once again to address the tort liability of police officers who, while engaged in the vehicular pursuit of violators or suspected violators of the law, disregard the rules of the road, become involved in motor vehicle accidents, and inflict injury and loss upon innocent members of the driving public. In our first consideration of this case, Fielder v. Jenkins, 263 N.J.Super. 231, 622 A.2d 906 (App.Div.1993) (Fielder I), we distinguished, for immunity purposes, between an accident directly…