ARTHUR L LACROIX

Officer Rank: Trooper
Memorial Panel: 8-E: 4
Department: New York State Police
End of Watch: July 4, 1954
Cause: CRUSH
Age: 23
Years of Service: 8
Description: Trooper Lacroix stopped at the Edgewater International Speedway in Jefferson County to check on traffic conditions and observed a stock car overturned on the race course. As he went to the car to determine if the driver was injured, a wheel from another racer careened up the embankment and struck him in the chest and head. Trooper Lacroix died in an ambulance while being transferred to a hospital for emergency surgery.
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