Memorial Page – NY State Police Trooper Raymond A. Plunkett

Trooper Plunkett, 27, died on January 5, 1934 as a result of a crash on Kirkland Hill, south of Utica, NY.

NYSP Trooper Raymond Plunkett

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.

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Three Young People Killed in Alabama’s Second Triple Fatality Crash of the Holidays

A crash at 2:30am on New Year’s Day, 2020, left three early-20s people dead and a fourth in hospital.  The incident happened in Elmore County, about five miles east of Wetumpka, on Rifle Range Road near Peace Church Road.

According to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency [ALEA], a 1997 Lexus ES300 that was being driven by Ladarious Antonio Griffin, 25, of Montgomery,  left the road,  struck a tree, and overturned.
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