operation of the truck in routine traffic. Additionally, the snow plow driver had to exercise judgment and discretion in deciding whether a particular street must be plowed or salted or both. Id. at 344. “When employing law enforcement officers, the Commonwealth’s interest and function is to protect the public safety.” Lake v. Mitchell, 77 Va. Cir. 14 (Prince George County 2008). However, “[djriving down a major roadway at excessive speeds to the scene of a non-emergency, where the preservation of human life is not a concern, is not integral to furthering this interest and function.” Id. (denying immunity to a police officer who was driving to a site of a suspected homicide where there was no evidence of an immediate threat to public safety); but see Colby v. Boyden, 241 Va. 125 (1991) (<HOLDING>). In this case, Defendant argues he is entitled
holding that police officers who engaged in a dangerous highspeed chase of a fleeing suspect were immune from suit holding fleeing police officers in a vehicle was a violent felony under the acca holding that an officer may use deadly force when a fleeing suspect threatens the officer with a weapon holding that a fleeing suspect created a substantial risk of bodily injury to officers when he ran from officers and scaled a fence abutting the precipice of a canal in dim light holding a police officer who was pursuing a fleeing suspect was immune from his torts when he ran a red light and collided with plaintiffs vehicle