When police investigators tried to figure out what caused a multi-vehicle crash that killed an elderly woman in Morton, Illinois, last month, they looked to the sky for help.
Like a growing number of police agencies throughout the country, the sheriff’s office in Tazewell County relied on a drone to quickly take photographs of the scene from on high to help investigators reconstruct the crash.
Image: Maine State Police Sgt. Darren Foster, standing outside police headquarters in Augusta in September, discusses how drones take photographs that help investigators reconstruct crash scenes. It is one of a growing number of agencies using drones to map crashes, allowing police to clear the scene more quickly. - Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal
