Los Angeles Police Department, California
End of Watch Wednesday, September 24, 1941
Add to My HeroesJoseph English Daniels
Policeman Joseph Daniels was struck and killed by a vehicle while conducting a traffic stop at the intersection of 52nd Street and Main Street.
As he showed the driver of the vehicle the defective lights another car struck them both. Policeman Daniels was thrown 15 feet and suffered fatal injuries as a result.
The driver who struck them was charged criminally as a result of the crash.
Policeman Daniels was survived by his wife and two children.
Bio
- Age 39
- Tour Not available
- Badge Not available
Incident Details
- Cause Automobile crash
Most Recent Reflection
View all 9 ReflectionsAs a former LAPD Officer I can say this story of OFFICER DANIEL'S fatality is somewhat ironic. Officer Daniel's lost his life at the same I/S as my father, one month after my father, 14days and 15 years before my father's death. (AUG. 10th, 1956). I'm ashamed to admit my father was supposedly in the commission of a crime, which resulted in an O.I.S. Between my father and 2 LAPD patrol Officers, Jack Noonan, and his partner D.L. Waugh. I was only 4 years old, and I've never held a grudge against the LAPD, the same agency I joined at 31years of age. I knew, from close family members, my father's history on the streets of L.A., in the middle 50's. Unfortunately, my father never got himself together to see his children become law abiding citizens. But, as I said in the beginning, it was ironic to have lost my father, and a fellow officer in blue, tragically, at the same location in the city of Los Angeles.
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