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Criminal involved in high speed chase causes accident?

Stupidity causes lawsuit?

"Can we please call my mum?"

Police stopped traffic, lining the road with potential victims, then directed a high speed chase into a device designed to make a speeding vehicle lose control. Traffic should have been stopped well away from the spike strip, not used like inanimate barriers to direct a chase.
Imo, this was 100% foreseeable and the only likely outcome of their plan.
That police force is likely going to pay those victims millions. They put those people in harm's way and they were harmed.

How come the driver's airbag---and for that matter, any of the airbags, didn't seem to go off? (I'm basing my comment on the appearance of the wheel in the aftermath; center cover doesn't seem blown off)

Some sensors take into account how fast the vehicle is moving. This vehicle wasn't moving. Also it was hit from the side so the front sensor was ok. Even though the vehicle was hit on the side the impact probably didn't exceed the limit for deployment. That's my limited educated guess.

Also plenty of vehicles don’t have side airbags.

I also don’t really think the title is fair. The police didn’t cause the accident, the asshole in the car did.

That said, @newtboy is right, it was very poorly managed.