Richard J. Cahalan

Colorado State Patrol — Lakewood, CO

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch September 28, 1957

Age 30

Tour of Duty 9 yrs

The Vigil Panel 93 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 29

Incident

Patrolman Richard Cahalan was killed in an automobile crash while responding to an accident call near Kremmling. During the response his vehicle went over a 50-foot embankment on Colorado Highway 84 (modern day Route 134) approximately seven miles west of Kremmling. An officer with the Colorado Department of Game and Fish was riding with him and was injured. Patrolman Cahalan was a U.S. Navy veteran and had served with the Colorado State Patrol for nine 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 Cahalan gave the Colorado State Patrol 9 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of Colorado, 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 Colorado State Patrol

Type Highway Patrol

Location Lakewood, CO

Platform Identity chp.co.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch September 28, 1957

Tour of Duty 9 yrs

Age 30

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Richard J. Cahalan served in the U.S. Navy before joining law enforcement.

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Patrolman Richard J. Cahalan 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 CO, 101 of 360 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 28.1% of this state's fallen. That is 28.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Colorado State Patrol, 19 of 30 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 63.3% of this agency's fallen.

Colorado State Patrol

of 30 officers

63.3% Accident

CO — Statewide

101

of 360 officers

28.1% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Accident