Roll of Honor
Incident
Officer Henry Eidler was killed when a 15-ton furniture truck with no brakes struck his parked vehicle on the Clay Street hill. The out of control truck also struck and killed six other civilians on the hill before it could be stopped.
Survivors
Officer Eidler had been with the agency for 25 years and was survived by his wife and two children.
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- July 23, 2026
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Tributes
25 years. You could have gone home.
Officer Eidler gave the San Francisco Police Department 25 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the San Francisco community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Officer Eidler.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Officer Henry Joseph Eidler is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In CA, 719 of 1,837 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 39.1% of this state's fallen. That is 8.1 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
At San Francisco Police Department, 35 of 106 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 33% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Henry Joseph Eidler's cause is highlighted.
How Henry Joseph Eidler Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. Henry Joseph Eidler is highlighted in May.
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