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QUAKENBUSH v. LACKEY

No. 49S04-9310-CV-1159.

622 N.E.2d 1284 (1993)

Tricia B. QUAKENBUSH, Appellant, (Plaintiff below) v. Florence E. LACKEY and City of Indianapolis, Appellees. (Defendants below) Samuel McAffee, Appellant, (Plaintiff below) v. FLORENCE E. LACKEY, and City of Indianapolis, Appellees. (Defendants below) Mac Medlin and Larry Allen, Appellants, (Plaintiffs below) v. Florence E. LACKEY, Indianapolis Police Department, and City of Indianapolis, Appellees. (Defendants below)

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Rehearing Denied March 8, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Hall, Greenwood, for appellants Tricia B. Quakenbush and Samuel McAfee.

Alex Rogers, Steers Sullivan McNamar & Rogers, Indianapolis, for appellants, Mac Medlin and Larry Allen.

Mary Ann Oldham, City-County Legal Div., City of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, for appellees, Florence E. Lackey and City of Indianapolis.

ON PETITION TO TRANSFER

KRAHULIK, Justice.

We grant transfer to arrest further expansion of the Tort Claims Act so-called "law enforcement immunity," and decide that a police officer travelling to the scene of a crime is not immune from civil liability for driving in a negligent manner. Ind. Code Ann. § 34-4-16.5-3(7) (West Supp. 1992). In doing so, we abandon the dicta of our earlier decision in Tittle v. Mahan (1991), Ind.,

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