Ten years ago today, on January 20, 2010, Trooper Jill Mattice, 31, was tragically killed on State Route 23 in the Town of Morris, Otsego County, as a result of a collision when her vehicle sideswiped an oncoming tractor trailer.
On January 13, 1943, Trooper Peter J. Formosa died as a result of a military auto accident at Hempstead, New York. At the time, Trooper Formosa was assigned to the U.S. Army, 826th Guard Squadron, Mitchell Field, Long Island, New York.
According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Officer Paul Dunn, 50, of Lakeland Police, was killed in a one-vehicle crash on his police motorcycle. This occurred about 5:45 a.m. this morning — January 9, 2020 — on Lakeland Highlands Road just south of Lake Miriam Drive.
Trooper Plunkett, 27, died on January 5, 1934 as a result of a crash on Kirkland Hill, south of Utica, NY.
Returning to the Oneida barracks from his residence in Clinton, Trooper Plunkett’s vehicle was forced off the right side of the road. He lost control and skidded on icy pavement across the road into a ditch striking a pole. At the hospital, he was being treated for fractures of the jaw and facial bones when he died unexpectedly of a blood clot in his heart.
Pierce County Sheriff’s Department this morning announced in a tweet: “In great sadness we report that Deputy Cooper Dyson was killed in a collision while on duty, as he rushed to aide [sic] fellow deputies who were being assaulted by a domestic violence suspect.”
Trooper Robert Ambrose, 31, was killed on December 19, 2002, when his troop car was struck from behind by a vehicle on the New York State Thruway in the city of Yonkers.
Trooper Ambrose was investigating a property damage automobile collision when a speeding vehicle, being operated by a 20-year old intoxicated driver, lost control and struck the rear of his Troop Car. This caused the Troop Car to catch fire and resulted in Trooper Ambrose’s death. A person from the original accident Trooper Ambrose had been investigating and the intoxicated driver were also killed in the crash.
Trooper Ambrose was a five-year veteran of the State Police and had served in Troops K, F and T. He was assigned to SP Tarrytown at the time of his death.
Corporal Harold Myers, 42, was killed instantly on December 19, 1950, while en route to investigate a hit and run accident.
Corporal Myers was a passenger in the Troop vehicle when it collided with another car near Amsterdam, New York.
Corporal Myers was the first Troop G member to be killed in the line of duty since Trooper Stanley C. Greene died on February 28, 1936. Ironically, Corporal Myers served in the Guard of Honor during Trooper Greene’s funeral. Continue reading “Memorial Page – NY State Police Corporal Harold F. Myers”