Officer Eliot O. Daley

Eliot O. Daley

Officer Eliot Daley was killed when the patrol car he was riding in was struck by a drunk driver near Tormey Hill in Contra Costa County.

He and his training officer were responding to an accident with injury call when a drunk driver crossed the center line and collided with their patrol car head-on, pushing it into a third car and causing it to flip over. Officer Daley was killed in the collision and his training officer was seriously injured.

The 35-year-old drunk driver was arrested and charged with felony drunk driving and negligent homicide. His trial ended with a deadlocked jury.

Officer Daley had graduated from the academy only three weeks earlier.