Thomas Hunter

Bayonne Police Department — Bayonne, NJ

Accident

End of Watch December 17, 1920

Age 62

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 4

Incident

Officer Hunter was killed when the department vehicle he was a passenger in collided with another vehicle at the corner of 26th Street and Broadway. Officer Hunter, who was sitting in the rear of the police vehicle, was thrown from the vehicle into the street. He sustained a fractured skull. Officer Hunter was removed to the Bayonne hospital where he died at 2037 hours as a result of the injuries that he had received in the accident.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Police Officer Hunter served with the Bayonne Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Bayonne community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Officer Hunter.

— 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 December 17, 1920

Age 62

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Police Officer Thomas Hunter 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