A tribute to the millions of people who have been killed or seriously injured in motor vehicle crashes in the USA. Part of 'Road Safety USA,' a 501(c)(3).
Around 3:19pm on Monday, February 22, 2016, Tim O’Donnell and his five-year old daughter Bridget (“Bridie”) were in their Chevy Malibu, heading home, when they stopped at the NJ toll plaza to get a ticket.
Police Officer Christopher Eric Ewing, 34, was killed when a drunk driver turned left in front of his patrol car at the intersection of South Cobb Drive and Oak Drive, Smyrna, just after 11:00 pm.
On April 22, 1976, Officer Arthur DelGaudio, 26, was killed while in the pursuit of an impaired and reckless driver.
Around 7:25 a.m. on Wednesday, 22 April, 2020, off-duty Officer Terry Vick of the Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office was the driver in what appears to be a single-vehicle crash near the 43 mile marker on the Western Kentucky Parkway.
At 7:30am, Detective Benjamin James Campbell, 31, of Maine State Police broke off his drive to a training assignment and was assisting at the scene of a disabled vehicle on I-95 south, near Intersection 180 (Coldbrook Road) at Hampden, when he was struck and killed by a wheel that had broken loose from a passing vehicle.
Patrolman John E. Higgins, 23, of Massachusetts State Police, was killed in a motorcycle collision
Police Officer Roger Carl Henarie, 25, was killed when he was responding to back up a fellow officer who was stopping a suspected stolen vehicle.
Casey Feldman, 21, of Springfield, Pennsylvania, a senior at Fordham University – Lincoln Center and an award-winning student journalist, was fatally injured on July 17, 2009, in Ocean City, N.J. She was a pedestrian in a crosswalk when she was struck by a distracted driver.
Dustin’s mother Leona Schneemann writes: “Three Letters Ended My Life”
Around 9:30pm on April 15, 1915, Chief of Police Patrick A. Butler, aged 59, left his home at 1027 Pleasant Street, Weymouth, MA, to walk to work at the old police station, which was on the same street. As he did so, he apparently saw a vehicle approaching with its headlights off.
