Roll of Honor
Incident
Patrolman Henry Hight succumbed to injuries sustained five days earlier in an automobile accident in Moore County on Highway 15-501, near White Hill. He was responding to a vehicle accident when his police vehicle struck a truck that was entering the highway. He was taken to Moore Memorial Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries five days later. The accident occured near the Lee County line. Patrolman Hight was a U.S. Army veteran of WWII and served with the North Carolina Highway Patrol for 11 years.
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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 Hight gave the North Carolina Highway Patrol 11 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of North Carolina, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Military Service
Henry Alton Hight, Jr. served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.
Patrolman Henry Alton Hight, Jr. 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 NC, 205 of 664 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 30.9% of this state's fallen.
At North Carolina Highway Patrol, 41 of 69 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 59.4% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Henry Alton Hight, Jr.'s cause is highlighted.
How Henry Alton Hight, Jr. Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. Henry Alton Hight, Jr. is highlighted in May.
Incident Location
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