“With our old cars, the sirens were tucked up behind the fender, so the sound had to come out from underneath the car or through the grill,” he said. Rich Miller said the push bumpers the Sioux Falls Police Department uses are actually aimed at increasing traffic safety. “Why do you want to put the bull bars on in the first place? If they’re using it as a ram, get an armored personnel carrier,” he said.Ĭpt. In rural areas, bull bars can reduce the amount of damage to vehicles in wildlife collisions.īut Wellar said that shouldn’t be the case in an urban community like Sioux Falls. That’s not to say they don't have legitimate uses for some law enforcement agencies. But with bull bars, the pedestrian ends up being shoved to the ground, increasing the chances of being ran over. Wellar said in a typical car versus pedestrian accident, the front bumper of a car hits the person in the knee area and throws them over the hood. Since 2013, the city has spent about $22,500 putting bull bars on 45 police cruisers. Law enforcement agencies around the country have also found them useful, including the Sioux Falls Police Department. It’s serious trouble.”īull bars have come into popularity in recent years with the general public buying them aftermarket for their SUVs and pickup trucks. “And they’re absolutely killer for cyclists or pedestrians. They can take the bull bar right in the head,” he said. What does exist suggests pedestrians' chances of surviving a collision are cut in half when bull bars are involved. “(My) real concern is all about accidents.”Ī Canadian researcher says Zokaites' concern could be a valid one.īarry Wellar, a retired University of Ottawa professor who often testifies as an expert witness in transportation safety cases, said little research has been done on the safety impact to pedestrians and cyclists regarding bull bars. It’s not a tank, it’s not an armored personnel carrier but it’s still more militaristic than this nice soft relatively comfortable bumper on a car,” he told the Council. “There’s this whole militarization of police going on. This week his topic was the push bumpers, also known as bull bars, equipped on the front of Sioux Falls Police cruisers. Sioux Falls resident David Zokaites, a familiar face at City Council meetings, often uses public input to pontificate on issues, including police militarization. On the next gen 10th generation trucks they lowered the frame in the front and made the bottom of the bumper out of plastic so it doesn’t do this anymore.Watch Video: Video: Push bumpers on police carsĬould those oversized bumpers on the front of police vehicles put pedestrians at a greater risk? it’s really dangerous to get hit by one of those. Interesting fact about those trucks with the high frame and the stock bumper is that in an accident the bumper folds down at the bottom and it and the frame over ride the front end and scalp a car or even a cross over SUV. I think having it welded would work best though. It only needs to be strong in one direction. I would have a piece perpendicular at the joint too. I don’t have an aluminum welder so I would put a strip of steel over the front and put a bunch of small bolts though. I’d like to take the bumper off a car from a junk yard and cut parts of it out to put at the ends of the original bumper. What bumper extension would you recommend? Like I say above, easiest sol’n, you take the extra $600, buy a replacement vehicle, and give the insurance company your wrecked car. This is probably the best $$$-wise, but may be quite time consuming, and you have to have a legal place to keep the car, which will look less and less neighborhood friendly as you the remove parts. Keep it and sell the parts one by one on the internet.
Will take quite a bit of time and effort.) (Best bet of all options imo, but only if you are capable and interested in this sort of thing and have time & a place to do it. Otherwise becomes a he-said, you-said problem, if problem develops w/repair job. Suggest to let mechanic supply parts, not you. Keep it and hire mechanic to do a state-approved repair.Shop it around to some of the local salvage yards.They’ll likely sell it to a salvage yard. Unless you have more time than $$$, I expect your best bet is to take the $600, let the insurance company keep the car.
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