Roll of Honor
Richard Ivan Luht Jr.
Incident
Special Agent Richard Luht was killed in an automobile crash in Fairbanks, Alaska.
He was driving his department-issued vehicle up a hill on Summit Drive when he struck the back of a slow-moving home heating oil delivery truck.
He was transported to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries several hours later.
Special Agent Luht had served with the Internal Revenue Service for 26 years.
Survivors
He was survived by his wife.
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26 years. You could have gone home.
Special Agent Luht gave the United States Department of the Treasury 26 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Special Agent Luht.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Special Agent Richard Ivan Luht Jr. is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In DC, 453 of 1,418 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 31.9% of this state's fallen. That is 31.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At United States Department of the Treasury - Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation, 4 of 5 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 80% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
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