Roll of Honor
Incident
Trooper Williams was on assignment at a sobriety check point with local sheriff’s deputies. He observed an on-coming vehicle make a U-turn to avoid the checkpoint. Trooper Williams and another deputy tried to chase down the vehicle. Trooper William’s lost control of his cruiser on the wet pavement, and struck a tree. He was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. The accident occurred on River Road in Cumberland County, Virginia.
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You barely got started.
Trooper II Williams gave the Virginia State Police 1 year.
Thank you for your service to the people of Virginia. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Trooper II Williams.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Trooper II Daniel Lee Williams 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 VA, 204 of 656 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 31.1% of this state's fallen. That is 31.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At Virginia State Police, 32 of 52 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 61.5% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
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