TRENTON, Fla. — A police officer who crashed his car into a convenience store when his cowboy boot slipped off the brake said Wednesday he was embarrassed and not opposed to a new department ban on the smooth-soled footwear.
“They had leather soles and when I hit the brake, my foot slipped off and hit the accelerator. It was my fault,” said Michael Herko, one of two full-time officers in this rural north Florida town.
Herko, 62, said he was pulling into the store when his squad car crashed Sunday night. The 40-year police veteran was wearing a type of cowboy boots called ropers.
Herko’s patrol car crashed through the store’s two glass doors.
As a result of the crash, police Chief Bill Smith banned cowboy boots for officers on duty.
“This has never been an issue before because it had never been a problem,” Smith said. “It came up now because I knew he was a good driver and a good officer so I knew there had to be something mechanical involved and that is why we got to looking at the cowboy boots.”
Talkers
August 8, 2007
Florida town bans cowboy boots for police officers after crash
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