JOSEPH L A CAVAGNARO

Officer Rank: Lieutenant
Memorial Panel: 27-W: 17
Department: Boston, Massachusetts, P.D.
End of Watch: November 17, 1931
Cause: AUTO
Age: 57
Years of Service: 27
Description: Lieutenant Cavagnaro was injured in a single-vehicle automobile crash when he swerved to avoid an oncoming car travelling at a high speed. His vehicle skidded on the wet road and crashed into a tree. Lieutenant Cavagnaro suffered a fractured skull and died en route to the hospital. An investigator, who was working with Lieutenant Cavagnaro to locate a witness, was also injured but survived.
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