Henry Alton Hight Jr.

North Carolina Highway Patrol — Raleigh, NC

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch May 31, 1962

Age 33

Tour of Duty 11 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 68

Incident

Patrolman Henry Hight succumbed to injuries sustained five days earlier in an automobile accident in Moore County on Highway 15-501, near White Hill. He was responding to a vehicle accident when his police vehicle struck a truck that was entering the highway. He was taken to Moore Memorial Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries five days later. The accident occured near the Lee County line. Patrolman Hight was a U.S. Army veteran of WWII and served with the North Carolina Highway Patrol for 11 years.

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Patrolman Hight gave the North Carolina Highway Patrol 11 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of North Carolina, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department North Carolina Highway Patrol

Type Highway Patrol

Location Raleigh, NC

Platform Identity nchp.nc.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch May 31, 1962

Tour of Duty 11 yrs

Age 33

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Henry Alton Hight Jr. served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.

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Patrolman Henry Alton Hight Jr. is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.

In NC, 205 of 664 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 30.9% of this state's fallen. That is 30.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At North Carolina Highway Patrol, 41 of 69 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 59.4% of this agency's fallen.

North Carolina Highway Patrol

of 69 officers

59.4% Accident

NC — Statewide

205

of 664 officers

30.9% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Accident