Samuel Marion Webb Sr.

Savannah Police Department — Savannah, GA

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch April 14, 1929

Age 34

Tour of Duty 7 yrs

The Vigil Panel 57 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 30

Incident

Patrolman Sam Webb succumbed to injuries he received in an automobile crash while responding to a fire on April 12, 1929. A vehicle had pulled out of the way of a fire truck but pulled back into the travel lane in front of Patrolman Webb's patrol car at Broad Street and Gaston Street in Savannah. He was transported to St. Joseph's Hospital with a broken back and paralysis. He passed away two days later. Patrolman Webb was a United States Army WWI veteran and had served with the Savannah Police Department for seven years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and four children.

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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 Webb gave the Savannah Police Department 7 years.
Thank you for your service to the Savannah community, 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 Savannah Police Department

Type Other

Location Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Platform Identity spd.chatham.ga.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch April 14, 1929

Tour of Duty 7 yrs

Age 34

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Samuel Marion Webb Sr. served in the the United States military before joining law enforcement.

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Patrolman Samuel Marion Webb Sr. 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 GA, 264 of 904 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 29.2% of this state's fallen. That is 29.2 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Savannah Police Department, 9 of 31 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 29% of this agency's fallen.

Savannah Police Department

of 31 officers

29% Accident

GA — Statewide

264

of 904 officers

29.2% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Accident