William Hurley

Bayonne Police Department — Bayonne, NJ

Accident

End of Watch February 16, 1890

Age 47

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 4

Incident

Patrolman William Hurley was struck and killed by a train while arresting two subjects for vagrancy, drunkenness, and causing a disturbance.

Patrolman Hurley decided to walk the men around the busy streets. They stopped at the train tracks on East 22nd Street, but one of the trains switched lanes and struck them. Patrolman Hurley was killed instantly, and one of the subjects was injured.

Patrolman Hurley had served with the Bayonne Police Department for 10 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife.

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Tributes

136 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Patrolman Hurley gave the Bayonne Police Department 10 years.
Thank you for your service to the Bayonne community. Gone but never to be forgotten.

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

Agency

Department Bayonne Police Department

Location Bayonne, NJ

Platform Identity bpd.hudson.nj.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch February 16, 1890

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

Age 47

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Patrolman William Hurley 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 NJ, 258 of 646 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 39.9% of this state's fallen. That is 8.9 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.

At Bayonne Police Department, 4 of 5 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 80% of this agency's fallen.

Bayonne Police Department

of 5 officers

80% Accident

NJ — Statewide

258

of 646 officers

39.9% Accident

Nationwide

10,088

of 32,508 officers

31% Accident