The first crash is actually two different crashes edited together. In the first of two, a maroon and white car jumps the blue car with the ramp. A white car and a silver car are stopped adjacent to the blue car. In the second of two, a yellow car collides with another yellow car and the first one slides into a green car. None of these were present at the first crash. After the CHP officers arrive, the yellow cars and the green car are never seen.
While Poncherello and Nelson are riding and talking about Ellen Getraer after leaving the station, there is a blue Honda and at least two other cars behind them. When the camera angle changes, there is no traffic behind them. After they are stopped and are responding to the boy hit by the car, the blue Honda and other cars are again behind them.
Despite riding several laps on a dirt track, both Nelson brothers have completely clean leather riding suits when they enter the locker room.
After the bus crash, the shot of the CHP station is a different station than the one normally shown.
Although Getraer said the academy cadets would be on hand for the protest, Bruce Nelson is the only one present.
In an ongoing error, CHP cadets do not ride motorcycles.
In the episode fallout, that show Bruce they show patrolling and citing people. Also cadets do not carry a firearm yet he always has one.
A bus losing as much brake fluid as shown outside the CHP station would not be able to stop, yet the bus is driven in traffic for some distance before crashing.
The bus crashes en route to the demonstration. CHP officers would be at the demonstration site well in advance of any protesters or workers, yet they are shown still on patrol. In the prior scene, the clock in the CHP squad room read about 8:50 AM, well past when workers would be arriving for day jobs. Later at the plant, Getraer says it is 8 o'clock, and it is clearly morning so it is 8 AM.
In the first crash, the ramp behind the blue car is visible, to include before the crash. This same car was used for the same function- albeit in a different color- in the past.
In the chase scene involving Hal, it is clearly seen, when the Trans-Am makes the jump and goes air-borne, no one is in the driver's seat.
First and only appearance of daughter Ellen Getraer, played by Lynn-Holly Johnson. Johnson was born in 1958. Robert Pine who played her father was born in 1941, making him a barely plausible 17 years older, however Gwynne Gilford who was Pine's actual wife as well as his series wife Betty was only 12 years older than Johnson. Despite the Getraer's two much younger sons being portrayed in the past, a daughter was never mentioned.
The protesters were all exposed to chemical fumes, the minister had a head injury from the crash, and the bus was disabled, yet all are shown at the plant protesting the same day. The injured would have been transported to area hospitals, and there would be no means for them to get to the plant without the bus.
Upon arrival at the first crash, Poncherello looks at the right rear wheel of the bus and sees a fluid leak. He tells the bus driver he'll have to cite him for an unsafe lane change. He had not talked to anyone else to find out what caused the crash, nor could he have seen it as he was too far away and the crash took place around a curve in the road. As such, he would not have known to cite the bus driver. Later in the conversation, he tells Nelson to check the brakes since it sounds like the brake linings are shot. To know this, he would have had to hear the bus apply the brakes, which is another thing he could not have done. He should have stated to check the brakes since there was a fluid leak.
Bobby Nelson again uses plain English to call in the crash involving the boy instead of the proper CHP 11-codes.
Although the initial crash involves multiple cars going airborne, including one that ends up upside-down, neither Ponch nor Bobby check on the occupants of these other cars. Even if the bus caused the accident--and it's unclear exactly how making a sudden lane change would cause so many cars to go recklessly out of control and do sudden jumps on a freeway--since it wasn't damaged, it would be the last priority of the first officers to arrive on the scene, who would attend to injuries and then direct traffic.