O.J. Simpson’s Ford Bronco car chase

As in football, O.J. Simpson will always have a spot in the car chase Hall of Fame. Maybe even the top spot.

You can’t think of a police pursuit without thinking of a white Bronco being chased by 20 LAPD squad cars as onlookers cheered and waved alongside the 405 Freeway.

In 1994, television networks and cable news channels aired two hours of nonstop coverage of the O.J. Simpson spectacle. 

The former football star led police on a two-hour chase across Southern California in his white Ford Bronco after he was charged with killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

As the slow-speed chase dragged on, people started amassing on overpasses to wave and witness Simpson drive into the history books.

It was, as one entertainment lawyer put it, “the day Los Angeles stopped.�