Tommie Lee Goggins

Georgia Department of Corrections — Atlanta, GA

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch February 27, 1997

Age 63

Tour of Duty 13 yrs

The Vigil Panel 143 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 37

Incident

Sergeant Tommie Goggins, Correctional Officer Carlton Cherry, Correctional Officer Wayne Griglen, and Correctional Officer Eddie Davis were killed in an automobile crash while returning from an Emergency Response Team training class. As they were driving on I-75, six miles south of Tifton, a tractor-trailer forced them off of the road and directly into the path of two tractor-trailers heading in the opposite direction. Both semis struck the van simultaneously. Two of the officers were thrown from the van, and the rest were trapped inside. Eight other officers who were riding in the van were hospitalized. The driver of the semi that caused the crash was charged with several offenses, including four counts of vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident. Sergeant Goggins had served with the Georgia Department of Corrections for 13 years and was assigned to the Rutledge Correctional Institution.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Sergeant Goggins gave the Georgia Department of Corrections 13 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of Georgia. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Sergeant Goggins.

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

Agency

Department Georgia Department of Corrections

Type Corrections

Location Atlanta, GA

Platform Identity gdcorr.fulton.ga.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch February 27, 1997

Tour of Duty 13 yrs

Age 63

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Tommie Lee Goggins served in the U.S. Army (1952â1982) before joining law enforcement.

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Sergeant Tommie Lee Goggins 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 GA, 264 of 905 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 Georgia Department of Corrections, 8 of 38 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 21.1% of this agency's fallen.

Georgia Department of Corrections

of 38 officers

21.1% Accident

GA — Statewide

264

of 905 officers

29.2% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Accident