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Assistant chief recommends Mobileye camera units after audit finds distracted-driving link in local police crashes
Summary
Assistant Chief Alligood told the Woodstock mayor and council that city police vehicles had 33 accidents since 2024 with 18 at-fault; staff recommended buying 40 Mobileye collision-avoidance units (one-time cost ~$50,040) while councilors pressed for telematics data for coaching and root-cause analysis.
Assistant Chief Alligood told the Woodstock mayor and council on May 11 that a department review covering January 2024 through the present found 33 police-vehicle accidents, 18 of which were determined to be at fault. Alligood said 66% of at-fault crashes showed some element of distraction and that daytime crashes accounted for most incidents.
"We looked at data going back to January 2024. Through doing that, we saw that we had a total of 33 accidents involving our police department vehicles. Of those accidents, 18 of them we were determined to be at fault," Assistant Chief Alligood said during a presentation to the council.
Alligood reviewed three vendor approaches to reduce collisions: Samsara (telemetrics with an optional inside-facing camera and a subscription model), Mobileye (a windshield-mounted collision-avoidance…
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