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Incident
Patrol Driver Michael Mulvihill died when he was thrown from a patrol wagon while responding to another accident. On the afternoon of September 8, Patrolman Mulvihill was driving Patrol 3 on a “hurry call” to 1324 Clay Street for a man injured in a fall from a ladder. At 1417 Walnut Street, a streetcar drove into the path of the patrol wagon. Patrolman Muvihill jerked the heads of his horses to the side, but the wheels of the wagon struck a coal wagon and vaulted him off the wagon head first to the pavement. Fellow officers, Patrolmen Lottes and Hennekes jumped forward and caught the reins of the galloping horses. They then went to Mulvihill’s aid and found him unconscious and bleeding, then they put him into the wagon and took him to the City Hospital where he died later that day from a brain injury and broken neck. He had served with the agency for over five years. He was survived by his sister and is buried at St. Joseph Cemetery.
Survivors
He was survived by his sister and is buried at St.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Patrol Driver Mulvihill gave the Cincinnati Police Department 5 years.
Thank you for your service to the Cincinnati community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Patrol Driver Mulvihill.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Patrol Driver Michael Mulvihill 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 OH, 318 of 991 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 32.1% of this state's fallen. That is 1.1 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
At Cincinnati Police Department, 32 of 106 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 30.2% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Michael Mulvihill's cause is highlighted.
How Michael Mulvihill Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. Michael Mulvihill is highlighted in Sep.
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