Inspector Thomas Allen Belt, Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles

Inspector Thomas Allen Belt

Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles - Enforcement Division, Virginia

End of Watch Monday, August 18, 1930

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Thomas Allen Belt

Inspector Thomas Belt succumbed to injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident six days earlier while on patrol in Hamilton, Loudoun County.

He was attempting to pass a horse and buggy when his motorcycle collided with a vehicle that was backing out from a store. He was taken to Loudoun County Hospital where he died.

Inspector Belt was survived by his wife, son, two daughters, three brothers, and sister.

On March 14, 1942, the Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles was split into the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Department of State Police. The Virginia State Police assumed highway patrol duties while the Department of Motor Vehicles Enforcement Division assumed investigative duties.

Bio

Age 47
Tour Not available
Badge 20

Incident Details

Cause Motorcycle crash
Incident Date Tuesday, August 12, 1930

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I am a granddaughter of Thomas Allen Belt. My mother Mary Allene Belt Wachtel was
Born in Virginia, November 2, 1917. She was 13years old when her father died. Her mother was
Myrtle Shanner Belt. An older sister, Dorothy Belt, and younger brother, Townsend Wentworth Belt.
One sibling died soon after birth, a male, who is buried along side his parents in Stanton, Va.

On May 21, 2025, I will be attending, along with my cousins, Joseph , (son of Townsend Wentworth Belt and
and mother, Jean Ellis Belt, both deceased) with Joseph's wife, Elaine Guagliardo Belt to Richmond, Virginia
for a celebration of Inspector Belt.

Villa Mary Wachtel Ray
Granddaughter of Inspector Belt

May 10, 2025