Incident
Deputy Sheriff Clinton Frazier was killed in a single-car crash on Highway 178, just inside the Myrtle city limits, at approximately 9:00 pm.
He was attempting to stop a vehicle when his patrol car left the roadway, struck an embankment, and overturned. The driver of the vehicle he was attempting to stop fled the scene following the crash. She was arrested several days later and charged with culpable negligent manslaughter and leaving the scene of a traffic fatality. In June 2016, she was sentenced to 12 years and 5 years probation.
Deputy Frazier served with the Union County Sheriff's Office for two years.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife and three children.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Deputy Sheriff Frazier gave the Union County Sheriff's Office 2 years.
Thank you for your service to the New Albany community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Deputy Sheriff Frazier.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Deputy Sheriff Clinton H. Frazier is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In MS, 89 of 350 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 25.4% of this state's fallen. That is 25.4 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
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