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The way I look at this, if a guy runs and is chased by police who then have an accident, then the guy may be liable for something because there's an implied expectation that the police should chase people who seem to be committing a crime.
So in that case you may try to argue that the driver is responsible morally for the police accident (although the law will take a very different view in the UK than it seems to in the states).
Consider the case of a guy being chased by police, who are being filmed by helicopters (not the plural).
Any argument that the choppers are helping the police is bogus on the part of one of them at least - if the tv news want to help the cops, get the police despatcher to assign you to jobs. The fact is that the choppers crashed because two were jockying for possition to get the best pictures.
In the UK the oweners and survivors of the chopper crash would be prosecuted for not following air traffic rules.
At the time that the crash took place the driver may not have known he was being chased by news crews, and unless a very high proportion of police chases in his town are chased by multiple news choppers he would not have had a resonable expectation that the news teams would have been placed in a situation by his actions that caused them to crash.
Also - as an aside - what happens to that liability if it turns out that the driver is not prosecuted for anything relating to the cause of the crash.
We'd have the sceario that a guy was chased by police, found not to have been guilty of anything and then prosecuted for some type of wrongful death because some journalists were stupid?
In the past, bad things happened by accident and people blamed God, or evil spirits, or supernatural forces, and burned offerings etc.
Nowadays, people feel a need to blame a person or organisation, and sue them for money, or get them locked up.
The rhetoric seems to be "I am put out, it canot just be random bad luck, therefore I will sue".
Word: Sometimes Things Just Happen Because People Are Dumb.
Flying two choppers at speed in the same airspace whilst looking at things on the ground rather than the air around you is like juggling carving knives with a bag on your head.
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