Roll of Honor
Incident
Senior Corporal Billy Daugherty died four days after suffering severe head injuries when his motorcycle crashed on Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway near Skillman Street. Senior Corporal Daughtery was attempting to pull over a speeding motorist when he hit a rise in the asphalt, flipping his motorcycle and skidding almost 200 feet. He was transferred to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he succumbed to severe head injuries on August 14, 1992. He had served with the Dallas Police Department for 21 years.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife and three sons.
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Tributes
21 years. You could have gone home.
Senior Corporal Daugherty gave the Dallas Police Department 21 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Dallas community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Senior Corporal Daugherty.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Senior Corporal Billy Walter Daugherty 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 TX, 653 of 2,421 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 27% of this state's fallen. That is 4 percentage points below the national rate of 31%.
At Dallas Police Department, 30 of 95 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 31.6% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Billy Walter Daugherty's cause is highlighted.
How Billy Walter Daugherty Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. Billy Walter Daugherty is highlighted in Aug.
Incident Location
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