The Albany Police officer who slammed into a pickup truck Saturday is the same officer whose high speed chases have caused three other wrecks and killed two people.
Cpl. Gary Price was behind the wheel of his police SUV Saturday when he broadsided a pickup truck with six people inside. The truck overturned and the two adults and four children inside were rushed to a hospital.
APD wouldn't give us his name over the weekend, and now we know why. This is the fourth crash that Albany Police Officer Gary Price has been involved in.
In October 2005, Price chased a suspect on East Second Avenue who crashed into Erica Acree. Acree still suffers memory loss from the crash.
In June 2007, Price chased drug suspect Bobby Jones up Jefferson Street and Old Leesburg Road until Jones hit 21-year-old Billy Klewitz head on. Jones and Klewitz were both killed. Albany taxpayers paid the Klewitz family a half million dollars because of the crash.
Then four months later., in November 2007, Gary Price chased a suspect down Slappey and out past the airport.
The suspect slammed into a car with a pregnant woman and two children inside. They survived the crash.
Officer Price was disciplined because he didn't back off the chase even after his supervisor told him to.
He was suspended for 15 days and a year later re-assigned to APD's uniform division. At the time of Saturday's crash, Price was the K-9 officer for APD.
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