When the blue station wagon is being towed away behind Baricza, there is no damage to the rear despite it having been rear-ended by the pickup that was launched into the air.
When Bonnie spots the stolen Corvette, the brown van is not visible anywhere behind her patrol car, yet seconds later it appears between her patrol car and the Corvette.
After the pickup rams Ponch's bike, the windshield is intact as he rides away on it. In the following scene, the windshield is cracked in several places. Additionally, had the Plexiglas windshield been cracked as shown, it would have broken into several pieces.
In a close up shot of Ponch, just before he pulls Johns stolen truck over a silver hatchback can be seen on the shoulder of the freeway facing the wrong direction. In the very next shot the car is suddenly gone for no reason.
When Ponch is riding alongside Jon's stolen and repainted truck, he glances ahead and the front of the truck is visible, to include the push bar and license plate. Ponch would not have been able to see the front of the truck while beside it.
Contrary to what was usually depicted for crashes, the first series of rear-end crashes are actual crashes with no vehicles getting airborne. However, the last vehicle in line, a pickup, despite also rear-ending the car ahead is launched into the air. Since the vehicle it rear-ended was a station wagon with a square rear end, there is no possibility of the pickup becoming airborne.
In the first freeway series of rear-end crashes, the ramp to launch the pickup is visible behind the last wrecked car in line, a station wagon.
After the opening credits behind the CHP officers a tractor trailer unit is position on an overpass with a film crew standing on the roof of the trailer.
Charlie Max asks Toni Sykes to procure "5 Mercedes sedans: 380 SELs and a couple of two-doors". In the garage when the CHP officers arrive is a gold Mercedes station wagon, which Max identifies as the next car to go by asking the seat belt to go back in its casing.
Ponch calls in the first crash as a multiple 11-82 (crash with property damage/no injury) and calls for an 11-41 (ambulance), an 11-42 (paramedic), and a fire rig. He called in the wrong crash code as an 11-82 would not require an ambulance due to no injuries. Additionally, since Baricza is shown directing traffic while a tow truck removes the station wagon from the crash, this indicates enough time had passed to where the ambulance and fire-rescue would have already arrived since first responders arrive prior to tow trucks.
Bonnie after seeing her friend sitting in the van abandons pursuing the stolen car even though it was just seconds ahead of her. A trained professional officer would not have done this, as was shown earlier when the Corvette and pursuing Mazda had an even larger head start on Jon and Ponch, they were able to overtake the Mazda.
When the Corvette is stolen at the beginning the two women in bikinis come out to stop them. The brunette has nothing in her hands but when she gets over to her car she suddenly has her car keys in her hand to unlock the car door. This point is driven home after they're stopped and Ponch asks her for her driver's license. She makes the point that she has no way of carrying it since she's only wearing a bikini, which should also make carrying her car keys equally impossible.
After losing the stolen Corvette, Bonnie tells Getraer that she was boxed in by a van, went to check the van's driver, and she "let her go". In the prior scene when she was boxed in, Bonnie simply told the van driver "C'mon, move it" prior to recognizing the driver. She then got back in her patrol car as the van drove away. Contrary to what she told Getraer, she was not shown doing any investigative work regarding the van driver. The van driver in a later scene was asked how she shook the "cop that stopped her" and recounted the incident as Bonnie let her go due to their friendship.