Shaw v. City of Jersey City

This case is not about an uninsured motorist whose car accidentally collided with an unsuspecting pedestrian. Rather, as the trial court explicitly found, it is about a perpetrator who escaped arrest by using an automobile as ah instrument to injure a police officer acting in pursuit of the perpetrator himself. The trial court’s finding was consistent with an investigative report filed by the officer’s partner, an eyewitness to the incident. That report indicates that “[t]he driver ... with disregard to human life deliberately steered for and struck [the officer] sending him to the ground as…